叶剑是我杀的 我
“I killed Ye Jian! I...”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
张局
“Chief Zhang!”
叶剑 是我 杀的 我
“I killed Ye Jian! I...”
张局
“Chief Zhang,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese legal and dramatic dialogues, the 'shi...de' construction is frequently employed during confessions to emphasize that the speaker is indeed the perpetrator.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
was killed by me
Employs the cleft 'shi...de' construction to emphatically assign responsibility of an action to oneself.
Completes the cleft construction '是...的', placing focus on the agent of the killing.