Introduction
摘要
What difficulties are par for the course in the study of Chinese grammar? Which of the Chinese grammatical structures is pivotal to the fluency and at the same time gives learners a headache? If only one answer is allowed, then it must be the particle de (的). The Chinese particle de (的) stands out as the most commonly used functionFunction word in contemporary Chinese, both in terms of frequencyFrequency of use and the types of syntactic environments in which it occurs.