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General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | English term or phrase: The happy children throw a green ball. Susan never washes her car. | | I'm helping some high school kids who are interested in Chinese and I would like to show them some of the differences in sentence structure. If you could translate these and tell me what each symbol represents that would be great. |
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| | Chinese translation:幸福的孩子们扔一个绿球。Susan从（来）不洗她的车 | Explanation:
Having know the situation, I'd like to help. The titled translation is a little more literal but better to show you the differences in sentence pattern.
1) The happy children throw a green ball: The same sentence order between Zh and En. the happy children = (the, no meaning in Chinese) 幸福的 孩子们; throw = 扔 a green ball= 一个 绿(色的） 球 .=。
2) Susan never washes her car. The same in terms of order: Susan=Susan, name, or 苏珊 of phonetic trans; never=从不/从来不; washes=洗; her car=她的 车
Hope everything has been clear for now. Should you have further questions, please go ahead to ask. |
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  Adsion Liu
Canada
Local time: 19:08
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28 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +3 | the happy children throw a green ball. susan never washes her car. 幸福的孩子们扔一个绿球。Susan从（来）不洗她的车
Explanation:
Having know the situation, I'd like to help. The titled translation is a little more literal but better to show you the differences in sentence pattern.
1) The happy children throw a green ball: The same sentence order between Zh and En. the happy children = (the, no meaning in Chinese) 幸福的 孩子们; throw = 扔 a green ball= 一个 绿(色的） 球 .=。
2) Susan never washes her car. The same in terms of order: Susan=Susan, name, or 苏珊 of phonetic trans; never=从不/从来不; washes=洗; her car=她的 车
Hope everything has been clear for now. Should you have further questions, please go ahead to ask.
| Adsion Liu
Canada
Local time: 19:08
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