Sentence Number 2
Yesterday I buy phone
Chinese Sentence
昨天我买手机。
Full Pinyin
zuó tiān wǒ mǎi shǒu jī
Natural English
I bought a phone yesterday.
Short Description
A past-time purchase sentence with canonical base-form tokens.
Sentence Pattern
CWB-P005
Level
basic
Sentence Type
Standardized Expression
Standard Status
standard
Sentence Analysis
A past-time purchase sentence with canonical base-form tokens.
Sentence Analysis
The source sequence 昨天 / 我 / 买 / 手机 becomes Yesterday / I / buy / phone. Yesterday supplies the past reference, so buy is not changed to bought. Natural English both moves the time expression and adds an article; neither change affects Chinglish identity.