Title: Contrastive Analysis on the Present Tense of Chinese,English and French from Present Tense Angle
Abstract: This article analyses the similarities and differences among the usages of the present tenses of Chinese, English and French from the point of view of their aspect. English and French belong to the language family of Indo-European. The changes of their tenses can be found in the changes of their verb forms. However, Chinese is different from this language family, whose verbs have not the change of forms. The tenses in Chinese should depend on the adverbs of tense, the auxiliaries and the function words, etc.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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