... in a topic-comment sentence, as we shall see, usually consists of an adjective, the verb shì ‘to be’, a modal verb or a verbthat indicates a habitual action:xiangjiao hgn Bananas are (adjective)hfochc ... píjij a glass of beerMeasure words are also used with abstract and material nouns:yc gè jiànyì a suggestion (abstract)yc gè jièkiu an excuse (abstract)yc gè lhxifng an ambition/ideal (abstract)yc ... that one. (e.g. photographs, paint-ings, etc.)E Finally, as we have seen context is always an important factor in Chinese. If an object or a matter has already been mentioned in a par-ticular...