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CWB-R006

Question Words Stay in Chinese Semantic Position

Question words remain in the position required by Chinese semantic order. Natural English may move the question word, but Chinglish does not.

Question words remain in the position required by Chinese semantic order. Natural English may move the question word, but Chinglish does not.

Rule Explanation

Explanation

A question word maps one Chinese semantic unit and keeps that unit's source position. English fronting, inversion, and auxiliary insertion belong only to the Natural English reference layer.

Correct Examples

  1. You go where → 你去哪里?
  2. You want what → 你想要什么?
  3. He when come → 他什么时候来?

Boundary

Do not rewrite You go where as Where you go in the Chinglish title merely to resemble English question order.

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