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Mandarin · 组句 zǔ jù · word order

组句

A Mandarin reordering exercise. You are given the English meaning and a shuffled pile of characters. Click the characters, in order, into the slots to make a grammatically correct Chinese sentence. If a sentence has more than one correct word order, every correct order counts — and after each one, the page tells you which orderings sound native and which are merely passable.

Make this sentence
1 click a character to place it 2 click a placed character to take it back 3 all slots filled = checked 4 every correct order is accepted
Your sentence
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Native vs passable
References & credits. All eight sentences are original, written for this page — nothing is republished from elsewhere. Pinyin is standard Mandarin with tone marks (1 high-level, 2 rising, 3 dipping, 4 falling; le and men are neutral tone). Tap the on any character to hear its pitch — all sounds are synthesized live in your browser with the Web Audio API, nothing is recorded or fetched. On the grammar notes: each sentence's “native vs passable” remark describes the difference between a neutral, textbook word order and a casual, spoken form that a native speaker would tolerate in conversation but avoid in writing.
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