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本帖最后由 竹声 于 2014-6-8 11:51 编辑 / X, x; s6 ^! ~8 n$ p0 Z2 s
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7 Habits – 3 Speaking Incomplete Sentences: q, o3 ]$ M: G/ B
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A while ago, I met a graduate student at the University of Alberta. She's been overseas for a couple years, but is still struggling with this language. She has tried several different techniques, such as speaking louder, raising her tone, or saying words really slowly, but none of these seems to help very much. At the beginning, she was eager to take initiative to converse with her classmates; however, they often looked confused and didn't seem to know what she meant. Feeling extremely frustrated, she kept very quiet and only studied hard to pass the courses.
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One time, she had to talk with her instructor, but he couldn't understand what she was saying. The instructor was quite frank and said, "Jane, you need to speak complete sentences." Indeed, that was a very useful piece of advice for Jane, and also for many Chinese folks.
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/ T; s' [1 O0 KAlthough in conversation, we use less formal words and grammar, we still need to have complete sentence structures most of the time; that is, a sentence usually has a subject, a verb and an object (not always). It's okay to use fragments in speech occasionally, but the majority of our sentences should still be complete. 0 [' h4 p3 f& C5 W3 M
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