跟…一起 construction

[sunwukong88]

Hello there everybody :)!!

I have a question about the a sentence I have found in a story posted here http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2014/08/26/story-behind-the-idiom-zhuan-xin-zhi-zhi/ 

The sentence is as follows:

 

秋有两个学生，一起跟他学习下棋。

 

I am a bit confused by the sentence that starts with 一起. According to what I have studied so far the simple construction should be the following one:

 

Subject + 一起 + Verb
Ex. 他们一起学习下棋。

 

or

 

Subject + 跟 + subject + 一起 + Verb
他跟他的学生一起学习下棋。
他们俩跟秋老师一起学习下棋。

 

For this reason I do not recognise the construction used in the original sentence. Is it also correct to say "一起 + 跟 + 2nd Subject + Verb"? 

 

Thanks in advance

 

P.S.
This is the reference I have found about the 跟…一起 construction.
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_"together"_with_"yiqi" 

[Dandy Jiang]

I think the sentence is correct：

5 minutes ago, sunwukong88 said:

秋有两个学生，一起跟他学习下棋。

 

It's  the structure Subject + 一起 + Verb.

 

The complete sentence is：

秋有两个学生，（这两个学生）一起跟他（秋）学习下棋。

 

这两个学生-subject+一起+跟他学习下棋（Verb phrase）

跟sb.学习sth.=learn sth. from sb.

[sunwukong88]

Thanks for your reply!

About this one

跟sb.学习sth.=learn sth. from sb.

Could you please show me where I can find it? Is that a passive structure then?

[Publius]

No, it's not passive.

 

The Modern Chinese Dictionary 《现代汉语词典》 has this entry:

④介词，引进动作的对象。a)同：有事要～群众商量。b)向：你这主意好，快～大家说说。

 

So in the first sense 跟 is interchangeable with 同 which means 'with'. https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_"with"_with_"gen"

In the second sense 跟 is interchangeable with 向 which among other things can mean 'from'. https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_"towards"_with_"xiang"#.E5.90.91_as_.22from.22

 

This 'learn from' sense is derived from the basic sense of 跟:

①（～儿）脚的后部或鞋袜的后部：脚后～｜高～儿鞋。

②在后面紧接着向同一方向行动：他跑得快，我也～得上｜我们永远～着党走。

跟 = heel -> at/on someone's heels -> to follow someone closely -> (to learn/borrow/etc) from someone

 

Your sentence is not 跟……一起. It's (A&B一起)跟C学习D.