🙅More, No + Thing
Combining a pivot word like "want" or "don't want" with a specific object — an easy, high-utility two-word pattern for requests and refusals.
🎯 Pivot Grammar Modeling
🧠 Practice & test yourself🙅
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Early child-language research (Braine, 1963) describes this stage as "pivot grammar": a small set of high-frequency pivot words — want, more, no — combine with a changing set of objects, letting toddlers generate many two-word phrases from very little vocabulary.
Phrases in this lesson
要球
yào qiú
不要奶
bú yào nǎi
要抱
yào bào
要书
yào shū
不要鞋
bú yào xié
不要睡觉
bú yào shuì jiào