Classical Chinese includes strategies, poems, words, songs, stereotyped writing and parallel prose.

Classical Chinese is relative to the vernacular Chinese after the New Culture Movement, and there was no such thing as classical Chinese in ancient times. Its characteristics are paying attention to allusions, parallelism and antithesis, and neat melody.

After the modification of literati in past dynasties, it became more and more flashy. Han Yu, a great writer in the Tang Dynasty, initiated the "ancient prose movement" and advocated returning to popular ancient prose. The classical Chinese in modern books are generally marked with punctuation marks in order to facilitate reading and understanding.

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Language is separated from writing, and writing is concise. Compared with vernacular Chinese (including spoken and written language), the characteristics of classical Chinese are mainly manifested in grammar and vocabulary.

There are two main types of sentence patterns in classical Chinese: fixed sentence patterns and special sentence patterns. Its special sentence patterns can be divided into four categories: inverted sentence, passive sentence, ellipsis sentence and judgment sentence, and inverted sentence can be divided into four categories: prepositional object sentence, adverbial postposition sentence (prepositional phrase), attributive postposition sentence and subject-predicate inversion sentence (prepositional sentence).

1, sentence

The so-called judgment sentence is a sentence pattern that uses nouns, pronouns or noun phrases as predicates to judge the subject.

2. Passive sentences

In classical Chinese, the subject of some sentences is the receiver of action, which is a passive sentence.

3. Inverted sentences

Inverted sentences in classical Chinese are relative to the sentence order in modern Chinese. Based on this, we divide inversion sentences in classical Chinese into prepositional object, attributive postposition, adverbial postposition, verb inversion and so on.

4. Elliptic sentences

In classical Chinese, it is common to omit components. Grasping the ellipsis helps to fully understand the meaning of the sentence.

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