What are the grammatical features of modern Chinese?

1, mainly monosyllabic roots and root words, syllables are generally meaningful in modern Chinese. These syllables that record meaning constitute the smallest combination of sound and meaning in modern Chinese-morphemes and words.

2. Disyllabic words are dominant. In modern Chinese, compound words with roots are widely used to create new words. Disyllabic words have the aesthetic feeling of symmetrical and harmonious syllables and even rhythms.

3. "Four-character case" is the main word in disyllabic words. This is related to the dominance of disyllabic words and even-numbered rhythm habits in Chinese. Some numerical abbreviations are mostly even numbers. Such as "four modernizations", "five virtues", "three disciplines" and "four similarities"

Grammatical features of modern Chinese;

1, the word form has no morphological change. No matter whether a word is a subject or an object, its pronunciation and word form have not changed. Some grammatical categories and functions are not represented by morphological changes like some English and Russian.

2. Compound words are dominant. The morphology of modern Chinese is mainly compound words. This method is very effective and can meet the needs of vocabulary in verbal communication. But also facilitate understanding and mastering the meaning of words. For example, the sky can form a large number of words such as today, yesterday, the day before yesterday, tomorrow, Sunday, spring, autumn, blue sky, world, weather and so on.

3. Quantifiers are abundant. Quantifier is a common feature of all languages in Sino-Tibetan language family. Abundance of quantifiers is a major feature of Chinese. Many nouns in Chinese require specific quantifiers. Therefore, it can be said that quantifiers are a classification sign of the external characteristics of nouns. Quantities related to verbs also use quantity words, that is, "momentum words".

In addition to fixed quantifiers, temporary quantifiers are widely used. For example, quantifiers such as a bowl of rice, a meal, a meal, a bite of rice, a meal, a grain of rice, and a kick are also acceptable. "Foot" is a temporary quantifier.

4. There are two kinds of words. For example, verbs and nouns, verbs and prepositions, verbs and adjectives.

5. Syntactic and lexical consistency. Words and phrases and sentence structures are consistent. Such as "earthquake" (words with subject-predicate structure), "soil erosion" (phrases with subject-predicate structure), "improvement" (words with subject-complement structure) and "seeing clearly" (phrases with subject-complement structure), which provide a convenient basis for the study and application of Chinese.

Disadvantages: There is unclear boundary between words, especially in disyllabic structure, which is very prominent.

6. Word order and function words are the main grammatical means. Use the same words, but express different meanings because of different word orders. For example, "grasping industry" and "grasping big industry"; "I want to learn" and "I want to learn";

"Everything happens for a reason, but there is no evidence" and "there is a reason without evidence"; I don't know, I don't know and I don't know. With different prepositions, the meaning is completely different. Like "hit him" and "be hit by him"