"I have to go to work early tomorrow."

Translation: 我明天很早要上班。

[Rumactree]

I deliberated between two word orders.

我明天很早要上班

And

我明天要上班很早。

The first is accepted, the latter is not. I understand that time comes early in the sentence but I was thinking of it as 我明天要上班 得 很早

Just wanting to check whether the second sentence is bad Chinese, not the same meaning, or just wrong?

Thanks!

[Gabrielle145359]

I'm not a native Chinese speaker, but my feeling is that your second sentence definitely needs the 得 in there to be grammatical. I'm not sure whether you could simply insert 得, or whether you would then need to reduplicate 上. (I am fairly certain that "...上班上得很早。" is grammatical. I am not sure whether "...上班得很早。" is ok, but I'm inclined to think that 得 must come right after the verb 上.)

[mgwuh]

My classes lead me to agree with your suggested structure. I was taught that verbs cannot be followed by both an object and a descriptive complement. Another solution for transitive verbs (verbs that take an object) is to insert the order so it's obj+V+得+complement

[mgwuh]

*"invert" not "insert"
To clarify, the verb duplication OR the inversion should work with descriptive/degree complements

[DavidTset]

我明天要上班得很早 is not accepted as of 27/05/21

[Aleksandro_RU]

But WHY it is ok to say "hen zao" after "gets up" but not after "goes to work"?
It is real confusing.

[ryan.putranto]

我明天要很早上班。should also work IMO.

[roman2095]

That is accepted now

[NathanRasm]

明天我需要早去工作 is accepted too (without 很 and with some other unimportant differences).

[o-chefe]

Why 很 ?

[iad58g]

What about ‘我要明天很早上班。’?

[jamawn]

我明天很早要做工。 Can anybody tell me why this isn't accepted?

[AndrKuczar]

Could we also say: 我明天很早要去上班。?

[1MOiipQU]

what character indicates "go" in this sentence?

[iad58g]

None, really. What it says is ‘I have to start work (or: begin my shift) early tomorrow’. The ‘go to’ is Duolingo's whim.

[1MOiipQU]

Thank you. That was confusing me.

[PiFi700860]

I get confused that sometimes duolingo demands 要 to appear before time, then other times demanding it to be after time. I can't wrap my head around what words other than the subject of the sentence should appear before it because of it.