Fighting ChinglishChinglish?•Where where.•You have seed, give me wait, I give you some color to see see. Brothers, together up!•Heart flower angry open•American Chinese not enoughIt is much more complicated than that.Useless Nouns•Redundant nouns– Example:– Living standards for the people in my home town have risengreatly– My teacher was lovely in nature– Through the realization of industrializationExercises•When I come back from America, I will make contribution to improve the building of the nation’s economy.•Democracy is a subject that has been argued for thousands of years.•It is a palace which represents the magnificent history of the past.Exercises•He lead the famous movement of the lettuce boycott. •The key to the solution is to rotate the tomato plants.•My awkward experience is a terrible one.Useless Category Nouns•Reading is very important in the process of learning. •Reforms in the field of education•In the practice of market economyExercises•Social partners have a relationship of relying on one another.•Depression could be triggered by factors like insufficient daylight, excessive sleep, and emotional crises.•When I go to a restaurant, I notice a series of features like interior design, food, service, you know stuff like that.Verbs•I implemented a study of the test material.•When I choose to go to a restaurant, I care about the following features.•When all the old buildings are replaced by new ones, the realization of modernization will be achieved.•The professor made an analysis of the phenomena.Exercises•My father is the person who had a great influence on me. •I believe discussion can help students achieve success in the future.•By using the method of wearing uniforms…•To achieve the objective of clarity in writing …Exercises•It is important to try our best to find a job with nice pay. •We must work hard to study the knowledge of our major subjects in college.•It is crucial to make great efforts to stress the importance of national defense.Extensive Exercises•Through out this period there was a severe shortage in the supply of a great variety of goods•It is only by employing the method of discussion, criticism, and reasoning that we can really foster correct ideas.•The one and the only policy to be adopted by us is to try our best to mobilize the people•The government departments concerned should do a good job in drawing up development plans for the special economic zones. •We should strengthen the work in all facets of public security.•Our policy is to work hard and ensure that not a single person shall perish from starvation.•Enterprises should be granted decision-making power in the area of foreign trade.Redundant Modifiers•Obvious redundancies– To forecast the weather in advance– A female businesswoman– Create new innovations– The earthquake was a serious natural disaster– Mutual cooperation– Positive guidance– An unfortunate tragedyExercises•The museums are valuable treasures to the city.•In an economically developed country like the US, all colleges are not free to the general public.•My idol is Avril Lavigne, who is a popular female pop star.Adverbs of time•Now the government is working hard to improve the housing condition of the homeless.•Nowadays, many people all around the world are bilingual. •Where did you go? -I went to my aunt’s place yesterday.Extensive Exercises•Hundreds of international firms are doing various businesses in China.•With the final completion of my term paper, my emotionaldisturbances simply faded away.•There are about 10,000 foreign international students in our college.Extensive Exercises•The students must have necessary medication on campus. •Efforts must be made to further improve the development of modern technology.Intensifiers•Confusing combinations– I think there will definitely be genuine stability and unity.– I firmly believe that our army will be able to maintain its owncharacter.– I can surely tell you that nobody is able to stop the reform andopening up in China from continuing.Intensifiers•Redundant strong words– Without a clear organizational structure, there could be seriouschaos in a company.– Porn cell phone websites should be firmly banned.Common examples•Active efforts•We should actively support the new Environmental Protection Act.•You must pay attention to the actual facts•We can adjust methods of working according to the actual situation.•In order to successfully accomplish our work, …Common examples•I believe that someday, my dream can certainly be realized. •Some officials’ speeches are very dull and meaningless.Qualifiers misused as intensifiers•It is quite important to create suitable working conditions. •The impact will be quite huge.•His words are somewhat shocking to us.•Music plays a fairly important role in my life.•My family basically determined my character.Qualifiers misused as intensifiers •Quite•Rather•Relatively•Comparatively•Somewhat•Basically•FairlyClichés•Examiners could easily get bored dealing with the following expressions:– Painstaking efforts– Overwhelming majority– Correct understanding– Clearly defined– Firm and effective measures– Gradually improve– Further reform– Firmly forbidExtensive exercises•We discovered this long ago but were never able to successfully solve the problem.•Beijing plans to make greater efforts to further improve sanitation conditions.•I believe that these policies will definitely not be changed. •Every year we must truly solve some of the problems, producing real results.Extensive exercises•We shall continue to severely crack down on smuggling.•You can make suggestions to the responsible departments concerned for an extension of time.•I hope we can sit down together to carefully study and discuss this question.•Agricultural growth remains the important foundation for the development of China’s national economy as a whole.Fighting repetition•We must further strengthen the building of national defense in order to enhance our defense strength.•People of all the different nationalities have made enormous contributions to safeguarding the unity of the motherland and promoting stability and unity and prosperity.•We should speed up housing constructions in cities and towns, especially the building of medium and low grade housing estates, so as to improve the housing condition of the inhabitants here.Sentence StructurePronouns•A record made by Cheng Yanqiu is my favorite object. I enjoy his records very much. When I can’t sleep well, I listen to it a while. In the old days they were looked down upon. Now we call them performing artists.Pronouns•Sean is the person who influence me the most. There was a time we were traveling together, we ordered pig stomach soup. He was terrified. I told him we eat stuff like that for thousands of years. But he never tried that anyway.Pronouns•In college, the call of the students’ union is to provide them services and assistance.Number•If each enterprise goes it alone, they will never be able to improve the quality of their products.•The carter administration committed itself to the withdrawal of American troops from Taiwan, but in the meantime they adopted the Taiwan Relations Act, which constituted interference in China’s internal affairs.Exercises•The West really wants unrest in China. They want turmoil not only in China but also in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.•China is estimated to possess 69.4 billion tons of onshore oil reserves, but only 25 percent of it has been verified.Exercises•China’s growth has peaked and is expected to slow down next year. Even so, it will remain one of the fastest developing economies in the world.•Prosperity is the common objective of all our nationalities, which we must never lose sight of.The placement of phrases and clauses•In an article celebrating the 28th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Part in 1949, Mao Zedong said …•Over the past decades he has devoted the greater part of his life to developing and spreading improved orange strains among fruit growers.The placement of phrases and clauses •Inside the grand Dacheng Palace in the middle of the Confucius Temple, musicians will play tunes allegedly refined by Confucius, using antique instruments including the stringed guqin.•After years of effort, Gao said that soil erosion has beenbrought under control.Word order for proper emphasis•The pro-Japanese Kuomintang group, headed by Wang Jingwei, vice president of the KMT, chairman of the Central Political Council, vice chairman of the Supreme National Defense Conference, and chairman of the people’s Political Council of KMT, openly capitulated to the Japanese in December 1938.Word order for proper emphasis•It is estimated that our army will reach 5,500,000 at it’s peak next year.•Roughly speaking, the government will be in much better financial shape next year than this, despite another enormous deficit.The position of clauses•We used to serve the old society, although we didn’t work directly for the Northern Warlord or for the KMT. So we cannot say we were not influenced by the old society.•Self-practice is important for all of them, no matter whether they will take up the career of teachers or serve as foreign relations personnel. Don’t interfere with them when they manage to find time for self-practice.Exercises•Zhou Enlai … traveled to southern Anhui Province to discuss with the leaders of the New Fourth Army the strategic tasks for the army in February 1939.•First, an appropriate speed was se t for China’s economic development after a view of the experience of the past seven years.Exercises•Should we be discouraged by these difficulties? No. We should recognize that our present difficulties are nothing very serious, compared to the difficulties we have facedover the last two decades of struggle.Exercises•According to a survey, the forested region in the Northeast will be depleted completely in 10 to 25 years, unless our forestry work is improved.•Since the Red Army let slip this golden opportunity, Chiang was able to complete the all-round encirclement of the Central Soviet Area after having defeated the Fujian People’s Government.Dangling modifiers•An opening participial phrase must modify the subject of the sentence.Dangling modifiers•Looking back over the past 3000 years, Chinese culture has never been overturned by neighboring nations. •Conveniently situated, it takes only 40 minutes to get to Baiyun International Airport from downtown Guangzhou.Dangling modifiers•In recent years, China has introduced much technology and equipment from abroad, playing an important role in improving its petrochemical technology.Commonly accepted dangling participles •Generally speaking,•Judging form•B arring (results) …•Owing to …•According to …•Provided …•Concerning,•RegardingCommonly accepted dangling participles •Assuming•Allowing for•Granted thatDangling Gerunds•The implied subject of an opening gerund must be the same as the subject of the sentence.Dangling Gerunds •Fortunately, by cutting the number of employees, the annual debt of the firm has decreased.•After gaining some experience, these measures will gradually be introduced in other regions across the country.Dangling infinitives•The implied subject of an opening infinitive must be the same as the subject of the sentence.Dangling infinitives•To lead China into the 21st century, efforts must also be made to promote cultural and ethical progress, to consolidate the Party …•In order to serve you better, please fill out a deposit slip before approaching the window.Dangling infinitives•In order to ensure achievement of the Party’s political, military and economic objectives, Mao emphasized that the Party must first consolidate its ranks.Dangling prepositional phrases•With a favorable environment and preferential government policies, any investment is assured of healthy returns.•Just like the Crown Plaza, all rooms feature an electronic door lock, a private safe, two telephones …•As leaders, it is necessary to get a clear picture of the problems and work out measures to solve them.Exercises•As a developing country with more than 1.3 billion people, he noted, China’s hydrocarbon resources will not be able to meet the fast-growing demand.•Living in a city among crowded cement “match boxes”, my eyes have become insensitive to the architecture around me.Exercises•In getting more than 90 percent of the people to join the mass organizations, women merit our special attention. •However, China is short of some minerals crucial to economic development, leaving Chinese geologists with a tough task.•Sometime ago in Shanghai, in streamlining administration the size of staff was reduced.Exercises•In studying putonghua, you can’t just rely on your ears and tongue, because it is easy to forget what you have learned. To be more efficient, there must be books printed in a phonetic alphabet and dictionaries giving the …Misplaced Parallel Structure•Also to be coordinated are water supply, security, and how to move people and trucks across the border more efficiently.•Timber is needed for construction and to withstand floods. •The delegates agreed that these are vital issues for the next century, both for people’s quality of life and for saving the environment.Exercises•In this way every unit can avoid the mistakes of departmentalism and exclusively relying on the state alone and will make the greatest possible contributions in its field. •Consequently, some workers are becoming jobless and need relief or to turn to others.Exercises•The difference of opinion was not only over the issue of the special economic zones, but also included the larger issues, such as the rural reform that introduced the rural household …•These are vital questions for the next century, both for people’s quality of life and for protecting the environment.Final Exercises•The situation in the Northeast is still characterized by the enemy’s strength and our weakness.•As our technical people are far from sufficient, the training of such people constitutes a very important task.•There is nothing to fear if the imperialists refuse to do business with us. Their past invasions turned China into a colonial and semi-colonial country. The Chinese people rose up to make revolution because that was the only way they could survive. We certainly cannot rely on them now.Final Exercises•The government Administration Council of the Central people’s government issued a Decision on the Unification of the National Financial and Economic work on March 3. •Compared to a regular automobile, it costs much less to operate a farm vehicle.•The required training period for a car driver is six months, that for a farm vehicle only three months.官方中文•李克强昨天在全国发展改革工作座谈会上强调，要认真贯彻落实中央经济工作会议精神，把扩内需调结构促改革惠民生有机结合，加快经济发展方式转变，提高经济增长质量效益，。
