Topic-Comment Structure

2 languages

Chinese话题句

B1Topic fronted for emphasis: topic + comment. Topic can be object, time, place. 这本书我看过 (This book, I've read). Common in Chinese.

Cantonese主題評論結構

B2Cantonese strongly favors topic-comment structure where the topic is fronted for emphasis. The topic is what the sentence is 'about', not necessarily the grammatical subject.

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