Also called predicate preposition or subject postposition. In ancient Chinese. Like modern Chinese, the predicate is usually placed after the subject, but sometimes in some interrogative sentences or exclamatory sentences, in order to emphasize and highlight the meaning of the predicate, the predicate will be placed before the subject.

2. Preposition object

Contemporary words are used as objects in negative sentences, interrogative pronouns as objects of verbs or prepositions, and when "zhi" or "Shi" is used as object reference markers, the object usually comes first.

3. Attributive postposition

In ancient Chinese, in order to highlight modifiers, attributes were sometimes placed after the head word.

In classical Chinese, the position of the attribute is generally in front of the head word, but sometimes in order to highlight the position of the head word, emphasize the content of the attribute, or make the tone smooth, the attribute is often placed behind the head word.

4. Postposition of the object-object structure

(also called adverbial postposition)

The preposition "Yu" is mostly postpositioned in classical Chinese. When translated into modern Chinese, except for a few translated into complements, most of them have to be moved to the front of verbs as adverbials. The preposition "one" is put behind as an adverbial.

Extended data

The common inversion sentences in modern Chinese are: verb inversion, attribute, adverbial and head inversion. Inverted sentences are mainly used to emphasize something.

1, subject and predicate

Subject comes first and predicate comes last, which is a normal and universal word order. Sometimes, conversely, the predicate comes first, which is the most common variant sentence. This phenomenon is common in interrogative sentences, imperative sentences and exclamatory sentences. There is usually a pause between the predicate and the subject, which is separated by commas when writing. Composition: "predicate" case.

2. Postposition of attributive adverbial

Attributive and adverbial precede the head language, which is a normal and universal word order. Sometimes placed after the head language. Postattributives and adverbials are limited to some "de" phrases, adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrases. Composition: "head-attribute/adverbial" case.

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