JP 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Grammatical Person, Stroke Order, Mediacorp
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Vocabulary: (cid:2073) (cid:2140)(cid:2074) person, (cid:2073)(cid:2112) (cid:2074) student, (cid:2073)(cid:2118) (cid:2113)(cid:2074) healthy; lively (cid:15912)used as a greeting to indicate whether one is well. Declaring that something is so using (cid:2069)(cid:2132)(cid:2070: attach (cid:2069)(cid:2132)(cid:2070) to the noun or na-adjective. A state-of-being can be implied without using (cid:2069)(cid:2132)(cid:2070)! You can say you"re doing well or someone is a student without using (cid:2069)(cid:2132)(cid:2070) at all. For example, below is an example of a very typical greeting among friends. Also notice how the subject isn"t even specified when it"s obvious from the context. So you may be wondering, (cid:1688)what"s the point of using (cid:2069)(cid:2132)(cid:2070)? (cid:1689) well, the main difference is that a declarative statement makes the sentence sound more emphatic and forceful in order to make it more well declarative. Therefore, it is more common to hear men use (cid:2069)(cid:2132)(cid:2070) at the end of sentences. The declarative (cid:2069)(cid:2132)(cid:2070) is also needed in various grammatical structures where a state- of-being must be explicitly declared.
