Mr. Wang : Good morning Mr. Lin. How are you?
Mr. Lin : I am fine, and you?
Mr. Wang : I am very busy.
Mr. Lin: Goodbye, Mr. Wang.
Mr. Wang: Goodbye.
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Note for Stative Verbs (SV):
In Chinese, we just say(I busy), without the verb to be.
Thus, = I am busy
Stative Verbs such as ,
or
are used in the same way.
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Note for Question Word () :
We add in
the end of a Chinese statement to make a question sentence without changing
the words order.
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Note:
"?
" or "
?
" is a "Tag-question"; usually we add it in the end of a
sentence to form a short "counter-question".
4. Greeting : ""
.
.
.
,
.
We can also say ""
only.