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Thread: What’s the difference between ‘Quan’ and ‘Dou’ as adv.?
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[quote=MARYMACARTHY,356789]It’s a common mistake English-speaking learners would make. Theoretically speaking, ‘Quan’ emphasizes items as a whole and there must be a certain scope of the items before ‘Quan’ in a sentence; for instance, ‘Zhe xie ren( those people) wo (I) quan(all) xi huan.’ In this sentence, ‘ren’(a person) acts as the item and ‘zhe xie ren’ (those people) acts as the scope. As to ‘Dou’, it emphasizes every item or any part of the whole mentioned are the same. When you wanted to say ‘All want to go to that movie’ what you want to express is that every individual, not all as a whole, wants to go to that movie and you don’t have any idea in your mind whether there is a scope for the ‘all’. Now you can see you should say ‘mei ge ren dou (not quan) xiang qu kan na ge dian ying.’ [/quote]
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