Sentence Number 1
They buy water
Chinese Sentence
他们买水。
Full Pinyin
tā men mǎi shuǐ
Natural English
They buy water.
Short Description
A purchase sentence using a Drink-class physical object.
Sentence Pattern
CWB-P004
Level
basic
Sentence Type
Standardized Expression
Standard Status
standard
Sentence Analysis
A purchase sentence using a Drink-class physical object.
Sentence Analysis
The units 他们 / 买 / 水 remain They / buy / water. Water is accepted by buy because Drink is within its allowed object classes. The natural-English comparison has the same order, illustrating that agreement with English can occur without defining the Chinglish rule.