L38 Pre2 Grammar

L38 Pre2 语法

3. The …不但不/没…, 反而… construction

• The …不但不/没…, 反而… construction means “…not only... not…, but on the

  contrary/instead….” It involves three component parts: (A) topic, (B) common assumption, and (C) unexpected consequence, for instance,

活动二十三 Activity 23 (p. 103)

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4. The 虽然…, 但 (是)…, 所以… construction

虽然打工更忙了，也更累了，但花自己挣的钱，心情愉快，所以学习的劲头也更大了。

虽然…, 但(是)…, 所以… The construction means “although…,still/yet…, therefore…

• It is a multi-conjoining sentence construction that incorporates two types of logic relations in one.

• The first part of the construction with connectives 虽然…, 但(是)… indicates adversative relation, and the second part with 所以… indicates causative relation.

活动二十六 Activity 26 (p. 105)

What kind of statements are they?