okay so i took a mandarin course a while back and decided to do some of the exercises on my own. it went well so far until i got to chapter4.
the question was quite simple,
write the pinyin for "This is my pen."
i was like "OKAY...".
firstly i know that "This is pen." is "Zhe shi bi."
and "My pen." is "Wo de bi."
so... am i supposed to combine it together?
so i wrote "Zhe shi wo de bi."
it sounds wrong.
"Zhe wo shi bi." still wrong.
"Zhe wo shi de bi." worse.
"Zhe wo bi?" okay i give up.
so i ended up stickin to my first answer. While i think it might be the right answer... it still sounds wrong. so i guess i shall wait for another session with lao shi to confirm this confusion -.-