Have you conducted any questionnaire survey before in the street? Or, be invited to fill in a questionnaire for a survey study? In this unit, we see how to use the greeting words or phrases to request a survey interviewee to respond and complete a questionnaire in Mandarin as follows.
Warm Up
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Listen to conversation
Meng Jie is carrying out a questionnaire survey in the street. An interviewee Wen Bo is invited to participate in her survey. Let us see what goes next.
One of usages of " 能 néng " is to express possibility, it is often used before a verb to form polite questions, similar to "would it be possible" in English.
Example:
" 你 能 帮 忙 做 问 卷 调 查 吗 ? nǐ néng bāng máng zuò wèn juàn diào chá ma ? "
Could you help me with a questionnaire?
" 我 能 问 你 一 个 问 题 吗 ? wǒ néng wèn nǐ yí gè wèn tí ma ? "
Could I ask you a question ?
跟 gēn
When " 跟 gēn " is used as a preposition, it means "with" in English. It always comes before a verb to express a sentence of "doing something with somebody".
The pattern of such usage is " Subject + 跟 gēn + Person + Verb + Object ".