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Chinese has a similar sentence structure as English, as, both of them are using the Subject–verb–object order, and adjectives before the nouns. This may make the sentence structure easier for English speaker.

Takes "I ate an apple" as an example, Chinese will be 「我吃了一個蘋果」. As you may see, it is almost directly translate from English, as "I" to 「我」, "ate" to 「吃了」, "an apple" to 「一個蘋果」.

There is no tenses in Chinese, but there are ways to express the tense by adding different words. 「了」 in the above sentence refer to "already done", which makes "already eat", also "ate".

Every nouns with a number-prefix should have a classifier, like 「個」 with 「蘋果」. A list of classifiers will be provided in appendix.