Intermediate - Requesting a Sample

davidgrimm
 May 18, 2012, 09:08 AM posted in General Discussion

Hi,

In this lesson's expansion sentences there is:

样品已寄出，不久你就能收到

Why is their no 了after the first part? When using 已经should we omit 了? I would have said this:

样品已寄出了，不久你就能收到

Thanks

Dave

 

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jennyzhu
 May 19, 2012, 08:26 AM

If the context is formal e.g, business exchange, public announcement, 了 is often dropped because it makes the tone more colloquial. 

 

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davidgrimm
 May 19, 2012, 08:38 AM

So the correct grammer structure is considered less formal (more colloquial) than one which is potentially less clear?

That seems like the opposite to English!

Thanks for replying

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darkstar94

Also directly using 已 itself is quite formal, check out this lesson:

http://chinesepod.com/lessons/monthly-data-plan#discussion-tab

It's not that it is less clear because if you think about, the word "already" almost always implies something that has happened.