Sentence Composition
| 1 | 湯姆 | Tāngmǔ | Tom (name) |
| =2 | 沒 | méi | (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not |
| =2 | 沒 | mò |
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| 3 | 發現 | fāxiàn |
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| 4 | 瑪莉 | Mǎlì | a transliteration of the English female given name Mary |
| 5 | 離開 | líkāi | to depart; to leave |
| =6 | 了 | le |
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| =6 | 了 | liǎo |
| =6 | 了 | liǎo |
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| =6 | 了 | liào | unofficial variant of 瞭 liào |