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Comparatives with stative verbs and complements of degree

 

Can you tell me the difference between and ?

 

  1. and can both be used to describe distances and durations, but with different word-orders.

    

   

B  

sv/v+duration/v+distance

cóng

FROM

wŏ  jiā  

 

MY HOME             

dào

TO

xuéxiào

 

SCHOOL

hĕn  yuăn

 

VERY FAR

 It is very far from my home to school.

cóng

FROM

zhèr

这儿 

MY HOME             

dào

TO

xuéxiào

 

SCHOOL

yào    yí   ge  xiăoshí

    小时

NEED  ONE GE  HOUR

 It takes an hour from here to school.

 

A   

     

B

sv/v+ duration/v+ distance

wŏ  jiā      

   

MY HOME 

lí            

FROM 

xuéxiào     

  

SCHOOL

hĕn yuăn

 

VERY FAR

 

zhèr       

这儿  

HERE  

lí 

          

FROM 

xuéxiào     

  

SCHOOL

yào   yí  ge  xiăoshí

     小时

NEED ONE  GE HOUR

 

2. can't be used if you don't state the duration of time or distance between A and B, but can be used, as in

wŏ cóng shítáng  lái   zhèr

           这儿.

I    FROM   CANTEEN COME HERE

I came from the canteen.

 

 

The use of ..…le INDEED, CERTAINLY, REALLY

 

is used to emphasize stative verbs and modal verbs. is placed before negatives, stative verbs, modal verbs, adverbs, other construction particles, and co-verbs such as , , and :

年轻人不能学吸烟 (before NEG) Young people really shouldn't learn to smoke.他的中文 (before SV) His Chinese is really good.

我可想去中国了 (before MV) I really want to go to China.

她的中文可比我的好多了 (before ) Her Chinese is certainly much better than mine. is placed at the end of affirmative sentences, but is not used in the negative form of this expression: 不想听这些话 I really don’t want to hear this.

If appears in front of a resultative verb complement or directional verb complement, it often has the idea of "at last (we have reached the end)": 功课可作完了 (at last)  I have finished the homework.

 

想去法国旅行

中文比英文难多

小王不是个好人。

昨天晚上我看的那个中国电影有意思

他的口语不比我好多少。