ABSTRACT
Context plays an important role in the use of the Chinese language. Certain conjunctions and conjunctive pairs are used in context only. In other words, these conjunctions and conjunctive pairs are used when the situation being discussed is already understood by people engaged in the dialogues or has just been mentioned by one of them. Their counterparts in English may not always show this grammatical feature; therefore, learners who are English speakers should pay attention to this unique feature in Chinese.
