The Structure of Chinese Sentences

There are six kinds of sentence components-subject, predicate, object, attribute, adverbial and complement.

One. theme

People or things are the objects stated in sentences, and questions like "who" or "what" can be answered at the beginning of sentences. It can be assumed by nouns, pronouns, numerals, nominalized adjectives, infinitives, gerunds and subject clauses.

Secondly, predicates

It is used to state the theme and can answer questions such as "how" or "what". Verbs can act as predicates, usually after the subject.

Third, the object

It usually indicates the object dominated by the action and always appears after the verb. It can be acted by nouns, pronouns, numerals, nominalized adjectives, infinitives, gerunds and object clauses.

Four. attribute

It is a modifier of nouns. It can be acted by nouns, adjectives and words and phrases that act as nouns and adjectives. If the attribute is a single word, it is placed before the modified word, and if it is a phrase, it is placed after the modified word.

Adverbial of verb (abbreviation of verb)

Adverbials are modifiers of verbs and adjectives. Adverbs, phrases and clauses can all work.

Complement of intransitive verbs

It is a supplementary component after verbs and adjectives. Complement is placed after the head language, except directional verbs, quantifiers, subject-object structures and some adjectives, which can be directly used as complements. Complements are often used as adjectives, quantifiers, directional verbs and subject-object structures, and various relative phrases are often used as complements.