ABSTRACT
A discourse is composed of sentence groups to show an approach to communication, such as a conversation, an article, a poem, an advertisement, or an instruction. In the flow of speech, discourse can decide how a sentence is structured and how sentences are arranged. The information transmitted successively between the speaker and the listener can be divided into known information and new information. As the core of new information, an ordinary focus is usually put at the end of a sentence, mainly served by the notional word with a speech stress. A focus can be used to answer the question that is posed for the focus itself. “Topic” in “topic-exposition” sentence refers to the recipient or tool rather than the doer of action. It should be the known information and the new information is shown in “exposition.” In Chinese, adjectives can function as predicates directly and even more freely than functioning as attributes in the sentence.
