Basic Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook

✍ Scribed by Po-Ching Yip

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 379
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written in a reference-and-practice format, Basic Chinese introduces beginners to the fundamental elements of the language. Comprehensively written, this book covers simple sentences and elementary grammatical categories. Basic Chinese is the first volume in a two volume set; learners may follow with Intermediate Chinese. With keys to the exercises and a glossary of lexical terms, this grammar and workbook is perfect for individual or classroom use.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 8
UNIT ONE Nouns: singular and plural......Page 10
UNIT TWO Definite and indefinite reference and demonstratives......Page 17
UNIT THREE Personal pronouns......Page 26
UNIT FOUR Interrogative pronouns......Page 37
UNIT FIVE Numbers......Page 47
UNIT SIX Measure words......Page 58
UNIT SEVEN Indefinite plurals......Page 72
UNIT EIGHT Times and dates......Page 82
UNIT NINE More interrogative expressions......Page 93
UNIT TEN Adjectives: attributive and predicative......Page 102
UNIT ELEVEN…......Page 112
UNIT TWELVE Comparisons......Page 122
UNIT THIRTEEN Verbs and location expressions......Page 136
UNIT FOURTEEN Verbs and time expressions......Page 148
UNIT FIFTEEN Verbs and aspect markers......Page 163
UNIT SIXTEEN Modal verbs......Page 174
UNIT SEVENTEEN Negators:…......Page 183
UNIT EIGHTEEN Types of question (1)......Page 194
UNIT NINETEEN Types of question (2)......Page 205
UNIT TWENTY Imperatives and exclamations......Page 215
UNIT TWENTY-ONE Complements of direction and location (or destination)......Page 223
UNIT TWENTY-TWO Complements of result and manner......Page 234
UNIT TWENTY-THREE Potential complements......Page 243
UNIT TWENTY-FOUR Coverbal phrases......Page 251
UNIT TWENTY-FIVE Disyllabic prepositions......Page 264
KEY TO EXERCISES......Page 273
VOCABULARY LIST......Page 329
VOCABULARY LIST......Page 349
GLOSSARY OF GRAMMATICAL TERMS......Page 368
INDEX......Page 373

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Китайский язык;Грамматика;