Grammatically correct. If a student make a sentence such as this. I would accept it is a correct sentence, especially for the primary school pupils. (And give the pupil a good thumb up for the effort!) And it(the sentence) would work when talking about pictures, stories or some comic situations anyway. One might like to help them rephrase it to make a clearer context. Otherwise, it is nothing wrong to make a sentence that might seem a bit silly in a native speaker's ears. To my view, it is fine! For more able pupils, one can help making the sentence with more details, such as 我是红色头发的女孩. or 我是穿红色衣服的那个女孩， ...
Let's not forget languages are also about creativity.
Cheryl
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:24:08 +0000
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Subject: Re: Your views
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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.
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> 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.
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> However, there are exceptions - 我爱这蓝色的海洋... or the repetitive form: 蓝蓝的天上白云飘。
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> 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.
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> It would be easier if you could provide a context, then the choice of words would be far more precise.
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> We are talking about Modern Standard Chinese, not hangovers from Classical Chinese of course. 我是红色女孩。
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> 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
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> Subject: Your views
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> 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.
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> This is just a single sentence, there is no context with the sentence.
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> Thank you in anticipation.
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> Isabella Teng
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