Author(s)

Yinghua Guo, Yun Tian, Xiaoxia Wang

Corresponding Author

Yinghua Guo

Abstract

“Almost” and “Simply” is a pair of adverbs which are very commonly used in modern Chinese, both of them can indicate approximating to a certain situation, but the sentence with the “Almost” generally expresses an objective fact while that with the “Simply” generally expresses the subjective feeling of the speaker; meantime, both of them can be used in a sentence expressing degree, but the “Simply” is higher than “Almost” in expressing a mood. As far as the sentence category as concerned, “Almost” and “Simply” can both be used in declarative sentences and exclamatory sentences; “Almost” can also be used in interrogative sentences.

Keywords

Almost, Simply, Syntactic structure, Sentence category