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Frontiers in Educational Research, 2020, 3(1); doi: 10.25236/FER.2020.030106.

The Comparison between Inanimate Subjects in English and Animate Subjects in Chinese

Author(s)

Wang siyu

Corresponding Author:
Wang siyu
Affiliation(s)

Hubei university of Arts and Sciences, Xiangyang Hubei 441053, China

Abstract

Due to the different thinking pattern between oriental and the occidental countries, there are a lots of inanimate subject sentences in English. Inanimate subject sentence is a common and unique language phenomenon in English, but not in Chinese. This paper discusses the causes, classification and translation skills of the inanimate subject sentences, aiming to help students better understand and use inanimate subject sentences and cultivate students’ English thinking, so as to realize the free switching between Chinese and English.

Keywords

Chinese and western thinking; Inanimate subjects; Animacy

Cite This Paper

Wang siyu. The Comparison between Inanimate Subjects in English and Animate Subjects in Chinese. Frontiers in Educational Research (2020) Vol. 3 Issue 1: 34-40. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2020.030106.

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