Asked • 04/18/19

How to decide which part is a subject and which a predicate?

I just read the following sentence: > 我这两天住的很愉快。 The meaning is pretty clear. Since this is a letter from a guest to a host in AirBnB, the meaning should be something like "It was so good to live here for 2 days.". However, I'm not sure how I can decide which part is a subject and which part is a predicate. If you understand it from the meaning, 我这两天住的 is a subject and 很愉快 is a predicate. But it is only after the meaning that I can understand its grammartical structure, and I wouldn't understand it without context. I also don't understand why 的 is used here, which seems to not [in a list of use cases of 的](https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/%E7%9A%84). But this is not the only example of when I don't decide the grammartical structure, specifically where a subject is and where a predicate is. How can I tell it apart better when I don't have enough context?

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Cathy S. answered • 06/03/21

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