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L3arn3r Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

A Chinese who is learning English?

A Chinese who is learning English? Is this sentence correct?
  

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l3arn3r A Chinese who is learning English? Is this sentence correct? It's not a sentence.

  • l3arn3r A Chinese who is learning English?
  • Is this sentence correct?
  • It's not a sentence.
  • What about this Chinese?
  • What did he or she do?
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l3arn3r A Chinese who is learning English? Is this sentence correct?
It's not a sentence. What about this Chinese? What did he or she do?

Please finish the sentence.

CJ
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Or " A Chinese guy who is learning English" ?
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Regardless of being a sentence or not, I think it's true.
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Thank you. I just want to have a short introduction, as you know, some service only allows a few words. Should I say: I am Jim and I am learning English right now?
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l3arn3rOr " A Chinese guy who is learning English" ?
You can add 'man', 'woman', 'guy', or whatever, but you don't have to.

CJ
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khoshtip Regardless of being a sentence or not, I think it's true.
No. Actually, you don't think it's true. You think it's correct.

If there is no assertion (a full sentence), it can't be true or false. For example, if I say "a table", you can't say that it's true because I have asserted nothing about the table that can be true or false.

S
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No need to separate them that much. It's true from the stand point of being a correct English collection of words, IMO. Although I'm aware of your goodwill but things can have huge different meanings in various situations, including the word correct.
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khoshtipNo need to separate them that much. It's true from the stand point of being a correct English collection of words, IMO. Although I'm aware of your goodwill but things can have huge different meanings in various situations, including the word correct.
Your native language must be Turkish.
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There's a big difference between whether a sentence is true and whether a sentence is correct. For example,

"Snow is extremely hot and is dark blue." is a perfectly correct English sentence, but it is not true.

"Snow be white" might be considered true, but it is not correct.

To the original poster -- to turn your phrase into a sentence of introduction, just say "I a
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Another small point.
I almost never hear English-speakers refer to someone as 'a Chinese'. The common term is eg 'a Chinese person'.

Clive

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