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How to segment sentences in classical Chinese?

The absurd reason is that the bowl was not broken when the hammer was hit; the reasonable reason is that the bowl was not broken when the hammer was hit.

When reading a certain sentence of an article, a poem, or a couplet, judge where to pause and read. Because there were no punctuation marks in ancient times to indicate sentence breaks, even though it is a sentence with the same text, different semantics often arise due to different sentence breaks, leading to misunderstandings and misinformation, leading to arguments, jokes, and lawsuits.

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The ancient articles had no punctuation marks. In order to distinguish the sentence reading, function words became important symbols. Especially before and after some modal particles and conjunctions, sentences should be broken. Classical Chinese often uses function words to express tone or emotion.

1. The first words of a sentence, such as husband, Gai, Zhiruo, Ruofu, Chu, Wei, Si, Jin, Fan, Qi, Qi, please, Jing, etc. are often used at the beginning of a sentence, in front of them. Usually it needs to be disconnected.

2. The ending words of sentences such as Ye, 磣, Yan, and Er are often used to state the end of sentences; Ye, He (椤), Xie (ye), etc. are often used at the end of interrogative sentences; Zai, Fu, etc. are often used At the end of the exclamation sentence. The latter is generally disconnected.

3. After the interrogative modal particles He, Hu, An, Huo, Xi, Hu, Yan, Shuo, Shuoyu, Heru, Naihe, Ruzhihe, Ruozhihe or other fixed structures, it can generally be used To form a question, you can complete the sentence as long as you understand the context.

4. The related words in the compound sentence are although, although, longitudinal, even if, to make, if, gou, so, so, then, then, or, situation, and situation, and, if husband, as to, to If, already, then, qi, yi, are usually disconnected in front of them.

5. Other words such as, yu, wei, ze and er are often used in sentences, and there are usually no sentences before and after them; ("ER" indicates a transition and is followed by a relatively long and When making a complete sentence, the word "and" should be disconnected).