The Differences and Similarities in Basic Sentence Structure between Chinese and English

中、英文的基本句構異同之探討

張柏芳(Bor-Fang Chang)

《中華技術學院學報》 19期 (1999/09) Pp. 35-50

https://doi.org/10.7095/JCIT.199909.0035

摘要

對於一個學習外語或第二種語言的初學者而言，獲得學習目標的方法很多，但最好的方式之一，乃是藉由初學者的母語及其所接觸的外語或第二種語言比較其句子結構之異同點。初學者不僅會發現學習外語或第二種語言並非如其想像那麼困難，同時也能激發其強烈的學習外語或第二種語言的意願；相同的，對於正在學英文當外語的中國人而言，也可以藉由這種方法在英文的學習中獲得重大的進展。本文乃藉由比較中、英文的基本句構中之差異與相同點，指引英文的初學者產生興趣進而有效的達到學習的目標。

並列摘要

For a language beginner there are many methods of attaining the goal of learning a second or foreign language, the most useful one of which is to make a comparison in sentence structure between one's own native tongue and a second or foreign language. A learner will find out that there are some differences and similarities between the two languages by means of comparison, through which he/she will feel learning a foreign language is not so difficult as he/she imagines and give birth to a strong desire to learn a foreign language. For a Chinese speaker who is learning English as a foreign language, he may make great strides in English through the comparison of sentence structure between the two languages. In this paper, I compare Chinese to English in basic sentence structure, including inflections, problems in subject-verb agreement, etc., to guide the English beginners to take interest in English and to facilitate successfully acquiring his/her aim of learning a second or foreign language.