Review and Analysis of the Usage of Degree Adverbs

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1 Review and Analysis of the Usage of Degree Adverbs
in “Chinese Inter-language Corpus” Our research is based on problems found in Chinese Inter-language Corpus, which offers us a new angle of degree adverbs research. This paper consists of three parts: In the first part, the basic ideas, methods, and frame of the research are discussed. In the second part, mistake types of degree adverbs are summarized and concluded. In the third part, the corresponding teaching methods are proposed.

2 HSK degree adverbs （34）

3 Part one This research is based on the examples of degree adverbs in “Chinese Inter-language Corpus”. Every language material is analyzed to find whether it is a mistake or not.

4 Pare two Part one Analysis and statistics of usage of degree adverbs in “Chinese Inter-language Corpus”.

5 Part one Usage analysis of the first grade degree adverbs：

6 Part one Usage analysis of the other grades degree adverbs:

7 Part two Common mistake types:
Type one: semantic types of verbs phrases or verbs added to degree adverbs is wrong. 我【很】道歉你，我不得不告诉你 。 那只狼很快过来，给东先生很可怜又【很】喘气地说起来。 乔治先生【很】帮助了我 ，现在可以开车回家。 如果不得不选五个人的话,【最】考虑什么？ 那时她的才华【十分】发挥,一个无名演员从此不举成名。

8 Part two 于是，我花了【比较】长时间看电视。 那一天，晴天，但是吹着【比较】大风。 中国和俄罗斯之间同时有【比较】多共同点和差别。
Common mistake types: Type two：when degree adverbs and adjectives modify nouns together, we should insert “de (的)” between adjectives and nouns. 于是，我花了【比较】长时间看电视。 那一天，晴天，但是吹着【比较】大风。 中国和俄罗斯之间同时有【比较】多共同点和差别。 中国与日本文化交流有【很】长历史。

9 Part two 正在看这个【多么】好美丽啊的建筑。 这些三十年经过了【真】很快啊！ 中国的万里长城也是在世界上【最】很有名的一个地方。
Common mistake types: Type three：two degree adverbs can’t be used consecutively in Chinese. 正在看这个【多么】好美丽啊的建筑。 这些三十年经过了【真】很快啊！ 中国的万里长城也是在世界上【最】很有名的一个地方。

10 Part two Common mistake types:
Type four： degree adverbs and degree complements can’t be used together. 交谈后我妹妹【更】生气极了，然后她决定直接去校长那儿。 我走回去我的房间，但是因为风刮【很】大极了，门被风关了。 我兴奋说“这个风景【真】美极了”！ In this sentence, “yue lai yue(越来越)” which means more and more is a phrase indicating degree, can’t be with degree adverbs . 她一直流了眼泪，越来越声音【很】大。

11 Part two Common mistake types:
Type five：degree adverbs can’t be with adjective indicating state. 电视里的比我做的【更】绿油油。 天气比较凉快，气氛【比较】雾蒙蒙的。

12 Part two Common mistake types:
Type six：degree adverbs can’t be with adjective duplication structure. 来中国的时候我发现了路上【非常】热热闹闹。

13 Part Three Find two new mistake types according to papers and works existed: 1．Degree adverbs and co-ordinate structure can’t be used together. 她的朋友欺骗她了，所以她【很】悲痛和伤心。 有一年他抢的姑娘不但漂亮，而且还【很】聪明和勇敢。 这使小伙子【十分】矛盾和痛苦。 在规则的方面新加坡的法律【挺】多而严格。

14 Part Three Find two new mistake types according to papers and works existed: 2.“ 非常……了” can’t be used as a predicate. 跟他们在一起，我知道的【非常】丰富了。 放爆竹的天空【非常】好看了。 我也【非常】激动了。 最不好时让孩子们的前面吵架后．孩子的心里【非常】怀疑了。 爬山的时候温度高，空气也好，我【非常】口渴了。

15 Part Four 于是，我花了【比较】长时间看电视。 那一天，晴天，但是吹着【比较】大风。 中国和俄罗斯之间同时有【比较】多共同点和差别。
Teaching strategies: Tell students the right syntactic construction: Degree adverbs +adj.+的+n. 于是，我花了【比较】长时间看电视。 那一天，晴天，但是吹着【比较】大风。 中国和俄罗斯之间同时有【比较】多共同点和差别。 中国与日本文化交流有【很】长历史。 家庭是社会的【最】基本单位。 我在国外从来没有跟【较】多人一起去过旅游。

16 Part Four Teaching strategies:
Students should be told that semantic types of the words after degree adverbs are limited. 我【很】道歉你，我不得不告诉你 。 那只狼很快过来，给东先生很可怜又【很】喘气地说起来。 乔治先生【很】帮助了我 ，现在可以开车回家。 如果不得不选五个人的话,【最】考虑什么？ 那时她的才华【十分】发挥,一个无名演员从此不举成名。

17 Part Four Teaching strategies:
Students should be told that degree adverbs can’t be used with words indicating degree together. 来中国的时候我发现了路上【非常】热热闹闹。 她一直流了眼泪，越来越声音【很】大。 我走回去我的房间，但是因为风刮【很】大极了， 门被风关了。

18 Only if we know mistake types well, fully analyze them and seek for reasonable explanations, can we find corresponding measures for teaching. Analysis of these mistakes will definitely promote the research of Chinese linguistics itself . Improve teaching strategy Contribute to Chinese linguistics itself in Chinese teaching

19 Thanks!