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In English, existential clauses usually use the dummy subject construction (also known as expletive) with there (infinitive: there be), as in "There are boys in the yard", but there is sometimes omitted when the sentence begins with another adverbial (usually designating a place), as in "In my room (there) is a large box."
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A word from the second family is used as an existential negator 'have not', as in Beijing méi 沒 and Shanghai m 2. [182] In Mandarin varieties this word is also used for 'not yet', whereas in Wu and other groups a different form is typically used. [183] In Southern varieties, negators tend to come from the second family.
The term "Classical Chinese" refers to the written language of the classical period of Chinese literature, from the end of the Spring and Autumn period (early 5th century BC) to the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BC [1] —or in a broader sense to the end of the Han dynasty in 220 AD. [2] "Classical Chinese" is also often used for the ...
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Though they are recent in origin, they are constructed using the vocabulary and syntax of Literary Chinese and fits within the four-character scheme, making them chengyu. Chinese idioms can also serve as a guide through Chinese culture. Chengyu teach about motifs that were previously common in Chinese literature and culture. For example, idioms ...
Thus, the existence of the golden ratio may be expressed by the sentence (> =). Because the golden ratio is not transcendental, this is a true sentence, and belongs to the existential theory of the reals. The answer to the decision problem for the existential theory of the reals, given this sentence as input, is the Boolean value true.
The bǎ construction may only be used in certain contexts, generally those in which the verb expresses "settlement" of, or action upon, the object. [1] [4] [5] According to Wang Li, "the disposal form states how a person is handled, manipulated, or dealt with; how something is disposed of; or how an affair is conducted," [6] or, in other words, "what happens to" the object. [4]