chapter



zhāng



Please read all of chapters 10 and 11,
and the first half of chapter 15.

Qǐng yuèdú dì shí hé shíyī zhāng, yǐjí
dì shíwǔ zhāng de qián bàn bùfen.




... Grammar Lesson:

... This sentence is great for illustrating that Chinese nouns in themselves
... do not differentiate singular and plural. The first "zhāng" --- ( 章 ) is the
... plural, "chapters", while the second "zhāng" --- ( 章 ), (spelled the same
... way in Pinyin, and with the same character, in other words there is nothing
... in the word, "zhāng" --- ( 章 ) itself, to differentiate whether it is singular
... or plural), is the singular, "chapter".

... "zhāng" --- ( 章 ) = "chapter"

... "zhāng" --- ( 章 ) = "chapters"





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