TYPE FIVE SENTENCES. ----- , ----- ; ----- , ----- .

–Every time I think of you back in our school, I sigh in loneliness; when you call me on the telephone, I want to cry. 
–When the evening breeze gently blows the poplar leaves, I think of you; when the doves come home to their homes for the night, my heart aches for you. 
–I took you for granted for so many years, as I thought you would never go away; now that it is I who have gone away, I realize that life without you is utterly meaningless. 
–I was terrified of your frown when you were angry, and did everything to keep you happy; I rejoiced in your unexpected smiles, for they were as sunshine to my heart. 
–Everyone thought the house cat was a gentle and lovable creature, for she drank her milk quietly and rubbed herself against visitors; the mice who lived in the basement of the house knew otherwise, for one of them was brutally killed by the cat every few nights. 
–The river gushed and foamed down the steep slopes of the high mountainside, breaking everything in its pathway; twenty miles further down in the valley, this same river meandered quietly through a flat landscape of clover fields and contented dairy cows. 
–The fish living in the high mountain stream were hardy and nimble, for their life was constantly threatened by their natural predators; the goldfish in the bowl on my table were gentle and slow-moving, for there was nothing around to trouble them. 
–I like to wash dishes as soon as the person using them has finished eating, as “wet” dishes are much easier to clean; my cousin leaves his dishes on the tabletop and goes out to play with his friends, as he assumes his mother will clean all the dishes for him. 
–My “ideal” best-friend wears side braids, and is both well-traveled and rugged; my friends always tell me there is no such person, and that I should accept what life offers. 
–Better to have one’s own dreams intact and fully operational, than to live under someone else’s expectations; better to be empty yet free, than married and constrained. 
–The summer swallows flew high in the dazzling sky, chasing unseen insects all afternoon; the cows rested on the almost steaming pastureland, contentedly chewing their cud. 
–Most of my students are perfectly obedient and industrious in their day-time classes, as they respect the authority of their teachers; these same students become wild and party-loving over the weekends, as they are ready to unleash all their unexpressed feelings from the past few days in school. 
–I love her, because she is; she loves me, because I have. 
–The frogs sat motionless in the thick reeds along the pond, waiting for some small insect to come too close to them; the heron stalked over the shallow water very carefully, hoping to catch a careless frog. 
–Some people think that cheese is the best bait to put into a mousetrap, as they think all mice like to eat cheese; my uncle tells me that the best food to use is a piece of chocolate, and his success as a master mouse hunter inclines me to believe him. 
 
–I walked into the night-watchman’s shack without knocking or saying anything, as I was so eager to warm myself next to his coal stove; when I felt warmer and better five long minutes later, I thanked him for the chance to get warm. 
–The chestnut seller was heating his chestnuts in a mixture of small and black gravel, stirring everything constantly to prevent any burning; he cried out in a voice that had once been strong and rousing, but which was now easily blown away by the merciless singing of the gusting wind. 
–When the famous ocean liner came into the harbor on a Saturday afternoon, all the tugboats whooped their foghorns again and again; when I got back home from college that same day, my uncle just looked up briefly from his newspaper. 
–I know a girl who loves to collect teddy bears, and who never gets tired of getting yet another one for her birthday present; whenever I am traveling somewhere and find a teddy bear on some shop’s shelf, I know she will always be happy when it finally gets to her. 
–One student took the hairpin and used it for a few days, as it was only made out of plastic; her friend took this hairpin and made a copy out of silver, and thus created something original and always in fashion. 
–I like to control many different projects in a low key and remote fashion, as progress is slow and the future uncertain; it seems to outsiders that I am doing nothing, as they cannot instantly see anything happening right in front of me. 
–While my father was having his afternoon nap, I was writing these “Type Five” sentences; when he talked to his friends at the evening dinner party, I felt very tired. 
–I have been thinking of you everyday of my life in exile, for you are deeply rooted in my heart; I recall you each time I see or hear something associated with you, which is almost all of life itself. 
–I think of you when I am asleep on my bed, as I can easily find you in the wide and free land of dreams; I cannot forget you for a moment in my real and daily life, since the empty space on the roadway beside me tells me you are far away. 
–My father went away for a few hours to go shopping with a friend, and I stayed at home to write these sentences; he likes to be constantly talking to and relating with other people, while I like to enter and write about the lands and peoples I saw somewhere far away. 
–The mouse collected many seeds and grains of wheat throughout the summer, and stored them in a secure nest of torn wool she had made in an abandoned barn; she wanted to prepare well for the long and cold days of winter ahead, so she could be safe from the killing snows of winter. 
–Every day that passes and is gone is a model of our greater life, a microcosm of how we lived our life in totality; it is very important that we live each second and minute carefully, as many wasted seconds can add up to a completely wasted lifetime. 
–The drive up to my father’s friends was long and hard, and I almost fell asleep while driving; the return drive home was also long, but we were able to stop and rest at various places. 
–Everyone ate a delicious lunch of soup and salad at two, then spent the rest of the afternoon talking about many different topics of interest; when people were tired and ready to return to their homes, they had completely forgotten to make and eat supper. 
–During the afternoon’s conversations at the dinner table, I met the wife of a ship’s captain; she told us many stories about her husband’s love of the sea, and the many places he had traveled to in Asia and Africa. 
–Nobody asked me if I was hungry that evening without supper, but they all went to bed early; as soon as everyone was quietly set apart in their bedrooms, I went into the kitchen and stripped the roast chicken down to its bones. 
–The first course of the dinner was a very well-cooked and delicious mushroom soup, that was universally loved by all the guests; it was the finest mushroom soup I had ever tasted, and I asked the host how it was made. 
–The host had two very lovable dogs in her house, which were friendly but troublesome; one dog liked to sleep on the sofa next to the sitting guests, and the other liked to drink the visitors’ tea from their cups. 
–There was a little mushroom soup still left in the bottom of the soup bowl, which could not be reached with a spoon or ladle; I did not want to waste any of that delicious food, so I added some absorbent cold noodles into the soup bowl. 
–A “sofa-bed” is usually very uncomfortable to sleep on, as there are many inconvenient metal bars digging into your back; this “sofa-bed” was just as good as a real bed, and I slept very comfortably that night. 
–The depth of the snow was not very much in my father’s town, as it had rained a lot after the snowfall; the snow was two or three feet deep in the host’s town, as the weather there was always cold and cloudy. 
–John wore city shoes when walking in the snow, and so he slipped everywhere he went; Mary put on heavy boots before she went outside for fire-wood, so she was able to walk anywhere she wanted. 
–I do not like to drink wine during the dinner party, as it makes me feel strange; in order to avoid social criticism from other people at the table, I put pomegranate juice into a wine glass. 
–On the drive up to the host’s house, the sky was a brilliant blue; when we went back home, the sky was a sad and grey color. 
–My father likes to cook his food carefully every evening, as he believes that preparing and presenting food is a work of art; I like to go out to some restaurant every so often, so I can eat something without any work or worry. 
–After dinner was finished and the dishes washed up, my father and I read for a while; he read his magazines, and I read a novel. 
–Every time that I see someone on the street who looks like you, I feel a sudden pain of sharp loneliness; when I hear a voice which sounds like yours, I turn around quickly to see if it is really you. 
–You say that you will be able to go to that place with me during the spring, but I do not know if you will be able to get away from your work; although I dream of our wanderings here and there over the mountains, I wonder if these dreams will really happen. 
–You have built up your home over the past four years, step by step and project by project; although I have never seen the work you have been doing for your future home, I have followed your progress intimately in the deepest parts of my heart’s imaginings. 
–It is only an hour or two from your apartment to your new house, from the place of your work to the place of your unfolding dreams; the distance from my place to yours is half-way around the world, but I travel there instantly in my mind. 
–Some people say that green tea is better for you in summer, as it has a sort of “cooling” effect upon your inner body; others believe that black tea is the better drink in winter, as it “warms” your inner body in winter. 
–This computer can be used conveniently with its battery alone, but it loses power quickly; it takes a bit longer to set up the computer with its power cable, but it can then run all afternoon. 
–There is only one person better than all the others, and that person is you; all the others I have known were mere city pigeons, but you are the only white dove. 
–She was angry in the morning, because her boss asked her to do all sorts of worthless projects; she was happy in the afternoon, when she allowed the white pigeons in the park to eat corn out of her hand. 
–Your character is sharp and piquant, like the best of Xin Jiang’s red chili peppers; I like the way it makes you seem so alive and admirable, but I am afraid when you are angry with me for some reason. 
–She likes “Fererro Rocher” chocolates very much, as they are delicious inside; he likes to give her these chocolates, knowing full well that she will be happy in her heart. 
–When I first met you in a far-away college campus, you helped me to find films for the other students in the local VCD stores; at a time when I could not say anything in Chinese, you were my window and connection to a new and unfamiliar world. 
–I like the Wuxi “xiao long bao zi” very much, as they have a slightly sweet taste to them; it is only rarely that I will eat them though, as they are filled with lots of unhealthy animal fat. 
–Many people like to cultivate a spirit of integrity in their personal life, both in terms of their inner life and of their social and professional life; I like to separate and compartmentalize many aspects of my life, as I feel that “integrity” is sometimes a limiting factor in my life. 
–I dedicate these “Type Five” sentences to you, as these structures are able to contain the language I would use when thinking and writing of you; when I speak to you in everyday life, I will use a sentence structure which is flowing and easy to hear and understand.