The usage of 是.......的.
Ok, so recently I've been wondering about sentences that end with the word '的'. I've looked at a few grammar books, and they basically say that this structure is used to focus on a detail of an event, with ‘的’ usually being used for past events and being omitted for events in the present.

An example of this sentence structure I have seen is:

- "你的车是什么颜色的？”
- ”是红色的“

So, I was wondering, why is do these sentences end with ’的‘?

Question

The usage of 是.......的.
Ok, so recently I've been wondering about sentences that end with the word '的'. I've looked at a few grammar books, and they basically say that this structure is used to focus on a detail of an event, with ‘的’ usually being used for past events and being omitted for events in the present.

An example of this sentence structure I have seen is:

- "你的车是什么颜色的？”
- ”是红色的“

So, I was wondering, why is do these sentences end with ’的‘?

Answer

Just because these words （such as 红色的，我的）are adjective. Lots of nouns can be turned into adjective if you attached a "的".

In fact, "我的车是红色的" is an abbreviation of "我的车是红色的(车)".

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to make it a complete adjective

you can say 我的  车  红
or
我的  车  是  红色的

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You can see a “是” before the “的”.
“是……的”is a fixed collocation,it's equal to be+adj. in English.

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我的车是红色的=my car is red
的 expressing some relationships which include
 1. belonging = 's
 2. modified and decorated and trim(修饰，beautiful girl is decorated or trimed by beautiful )
我的车很红(✅，my car is very red but here isn't 是 in chinese. 是is approximately equal to be but completely equal )
我的车很红色(❌ 红色 = noun. You can say that the man is very America. But so weird )

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Because you can just say
-你的什么颜色？
-红色

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