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Sentence Structure: Modifiers, Indirect/Direct Objects, & Dropping the Subject

안년,에밀리 here with my next lesson of this chapter. Did you guys wrap your heads around my previous lesson? If you are still confused, feel free to message me on my Twitter or on my Instagram (I will link both at the end of this lesson.)

WARNING:

I will explain this lesson in details in another lesson. Please skim through this lesson in order to protect your brain from exploding from the amount of rules and terms mentioned in this lesson.

Previously, we have learned that sentences in 한글 is built differently than English. Markers and particles are formed to point out where the subject or object is.

Now we have learned how short sentences are formed; it's now time for us to learn how longer sentences are formed.

Without further ado......

시작

𝕊𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕒𝕟 𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕥 𝕆𝕓𝕛𝕖𝕔𝕥

Korean grammar puts an indirect object before a direct object. This rule applies to any sentence no matter how long or short it is. There is a natural order, but it doesn't mean it has to be set in that particular order. This also applies to the English language.

Korean grammar uses the indirect object marker to create an indirect object. Remember it always uses a marker or particles to create a subject or object.

Let's look at the sentence below.

Chicken in English refers to the animal while chicken in Korean refers to the food.

𝙸𝚗 𝙰𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙾𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛

You can also out a direct object first to create a longer sentence; this is possible thanks to markers and particles since they indicate where the indirect object is located.

Both sentences are perfectly natural in either order. (Koreans use both orders in both formal and informal conversations.) As you can see, Korean grammar is quite free; that is why translators or foreigners sounds very unnatural whenever speaking or translating Korean.

𝕃𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣 𝕊𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 𝕄𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕗𝕚𝕖𝕣

By now, you should know Korean grammar is less limited for sentence building unlike English. Just remember one thing:
*Korean sentences often start with a subject and always ends with a verb.*

Prepositional modifiers (I'll keep this term for you guys to understand) can be placed anywhere (literally) except the end of a sentence.

Take a look at the sentence below as an example.

To me, as someone who has been learning Korean for thirteen years, each sentence seems to differ in meaning, which will be taught in the next lesson.

Here, a grammatical Modifier is placed on the direct object's position. However, it can also be placed in the following order.

The terms in 한글 circled are prepositional modifiers.

𝔻𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕊𝕦𝕓𝕛𝕖𝕔𝕥

Korean grammar drops a subject or an object often, which makes it extremely confusing. (Don't struggle to learn the detail yet.) I will attach you the basics because this is essential in order to fully understand Korean.

𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝙳𝚛𝚘𝚙 𝚊 𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝

There are two cases where you can drop the subject. Take these two sentences below for example.

끝 of today's lesson

The next lesson will be "Korean Speech Styles Part One: 해요 101," which we will learn the different speech styles that are unique to this Korean language system.

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