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Dear Colleagues, I think you have already made that a bit complcated. if just talked about grammar, there is nothing with context of the sentence. 我是红色女孩. is grammatically correct, sub+ predicate + object, but maybe has many meanings which can not be changed to 我是个红色的女孩子。 also, there is nothing with numbers of characters as your explanation. hope it is helpful. george > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:51:14 +0000> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Your views> To: [log in to unmask]> > Dear Isabella,> > In my humble view, '。' would be idiomatically better. > > Generally - from the top of my head - if the colour adjective has one only character, you may use it right before a noun, eg, 红女孩; 白衬衫. If there are two or more characters, you would like to use 色的 as a sort of suffix, eg, 深蓝色的衬衫.> > However, there are exceptions - 我爱这蓝色的海洋... or the repetitive form: 蓝蓝的天上白云飘。> > If there is a metaphor character before the colour, ie, 雪白, 火红 etc, then 的 is commonly used: 火红的年代.> > It would be easier if you could provide a context, then the choice of words would be far more precise.> > We are talking about Modern Standard Chinese, not hangovers from Classical Chinese of course. 我是红色女孩。> > 祝好。> > Cc> > -----Original Message-----> From: Mandarin Chinese Teaching [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Isabella Teng> Sent: 2007年11月6日 21:06> To: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Your views> > > > I would appreciate it very much, if you could give me any comments, in terms of accuracy, on the sentence below. > > I also put the pinyin down in case you cannot read the characters: Wǒ shì hóng sè nǚ hái.> > This is just a single sentence, there is no context with the sentence.> > > > > Thank you in anticipation.> > > > Isabella Teng> > __________________________________________________> Do You Yahoo!?> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline