③
State verbs: love, remain, resemble, smell, feel, hate,
②
like
Result verbs: enlarge, persuade, materialize
Classification of Chinese verbs

行为动词：吃，喝，玩，踢，扛


Dynamic sentences and stative sentences

现在走运。
他父亲很明显因为他不懂规矩而不高兴地皱着 眉。


Chapter 7
Stativeness and Dynamicity
Comparison
• 他教我唱歌。
He taught me (how) to sing.
•华大妈在枕头底下掏了半天，掏出一包洋钱，交 给老栓，老栓接了，抖抖的装入衣袋，又在外面 按了两下；便点上灯笼，吹熄灯盏，走向里屋子 去了。

吃饭(have/eat the dinner)，上学(go to school)，开会 (hold a meeting)，走路(walk on one’s way) 睡觉(sleep)，洗澡(bathe)，鞠躬(bow)，打架(fight) a verb plus its object

打碎(break)，揭穿(expose)，弄脏(dirty)，搞臭(defame)， 打败(defeat)，粉碎(smash) a verb plus its complement
After some fumbling under the pillow his wife produced a packet of silver dollars, which she handed over. Lao Shuan pocketed it nervously, patted his pocket twice, then lighting a paper lantern and blowing out the lamp, went into the inner room.
Classification of English verbs

love, ask, think, talk, enlarge, remain, bathe, resemble, smell, kick, persuade, feel, materialize, hate, like
①
Action verbs: ask, think, talk, bathe, kick, smell
The use of verbs in the sentences

English sentences prefer stative verbs, while Chinese sentences have a particular liking for dynamic verbs. In English, single actions are frequently expressed with the “Verb + Object” structure. In Chinese, there is a frequent use of verb repetition.

存在和变化动词：有，在，出现，消失 使动动词：惊天地，泣鬼神
趋向动词：起来，来到，去到 关系动词：是



Chinese verbs are more dynamic than their English counterparts

测量(measure)，思考(think)，比较(compare)，庆祝 (celebrate)，欢呼(cheer)，批判(criticize) repetition of the same verb or two synonymous verbs
Stativeness and dynamicity in Chinese and English

Chinese is more dynamic a language than English.


Classification of verbs The use of verbs in the sentences Verbalization of nouns and other parts of speech Syntactic structure