L14Pre1 grammar exercises

🔍What are the differences between the following two sentences?

1. 1. 你去过长城没有？

2. 2. 你今天去了长城没有？

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Answer explanation

🔍 Contrast

1. 你去过长城没有？

   • Emphasis: life experience, background knowledge, influence now.

   • Example: Maybe you can give advice about the Great Wall because you’ve been there.

4. 你今天去了长城没有？

   • Emphasis: a single event today.

   • Example: You’re just checking whether the person went today, no implication about life experience.

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✅ Tip for Beginners:

• 过 = ever before, gives you that experience in life (and might change how you act or think now).

• 了 = did it (completed action), tied to time (just reporting whether it happened).

Translate the dialogue into English:

A: Have your parents seen your girlfriend before(implied)?

B: No, they have not. We plan to go to see (=visit) my parents together during spring festival.

Translate the sentence: I have never been to New York.

Here is very close to Bei Hai Park.

Monterey is about 120 miles from San Francisco.

• 旧金山离蒙特雷差不多120英里。

• 蒙特雷是差不多120英里从旧金山。

• 蒙特雷离旧金山差不多有120英里。

• 蒙特雷是差不多120英里从旧金山。

我家离学校不到两英里。

Translate the sentence into Chinese: It only takes five minutes to walk from the subway station to Beihai Park.

Please type out the answers to the questions: 你們每天從幾點到幾點上課？🤔

There are less than ten minutes before the plane takes off, so making phone calls is no longer allowed

• 离飞机起飞不到十分钟了，不能打电话了。

• 飞机起飞以前不到十分钟了，不能打电话了。

• 从飞机起飞不到十分钟了，不能打电话了。

• 从现在到飞机起飞只有十分钟了，不能打电话了。