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Hello everyone! I'd like to ask your help please.

Suppose I would like to say "That person who is cooking is my older sister". Is it grammatically correct to say the 2nd sentence?

1. 做饭的那个人是我姐姐。

2. 那个做饭的人是我姐姐。

The structure of the 1st sentence is the norm according to Chinese grammar, however I'm curious whether it's also okay to shift some of the words' placement. Does the 2nd sentence sound alright to the Chinese speakers?

Thank you so much!

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I'm not a native speaker, but to me, the 1st sentence sounds like, "That person, the one making dinner, is my sister", while number 2 is "Of all the people making dinner, that particular one is my sister"

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As a Chinese native speaker, the 2nd sentence sounds fine.The differences of two sentences are

the first sentence stress on cooking(做饭), the second sentence stress on that (那个). The second sentence feels like the sister is in distance and the the person is pointing at her.

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