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.
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- Included in: Basic 50 Sentences · Lesson 3 Open Lesson Start Study