Elementary Persian Grammar

✍ Scribed by L. P. Elwell-Sutton

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1963
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Edition: 1996
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mr Elwell-Sutton's book provides a simple grammatical framework for contemporary written Persian. It is based on the characteristic idiom and phraseology of the language as it is used in newspapers, magazines and novels. The student is introduced to Persian script from the first lesson. Words are fully vocalized in the early lessons, but vowels are progressively discarded; they are, however, shown in the vocabulary. The letter-forms of printed Persian are used cursive scripts. Although the structure of the language is Mr Elwell-Sutton's immediate concern, he has given close attention to the need for acquiring a workable vocabulary. The examples and exercises thus require only a limited vocabulary of words in fairly common use - about 1500 in all. The student is also given help with pronunciation; at the ends of lessons sample sentences from the exercises are printed with diacritics showing the intonation and stress of each syllable. At the end of the book there is a key to the lessons.

✦ Table of Contents

Elementary Persian Grammar......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
LESSON I - The Alphabet......Page 11
LESSON II - The Alphabet (cont.). Case and Gender. Simple Sentences......Page 18
LESSON III - The Alphabet (cont.). Number......Page 26
LESSON IV - The Alphabet (cont.). Writing Notes. Adjectives......Page 39
LESSON V - The Ezafe. Comparison of Adjectives. Hiatus......Page 51
LESSON VI - Pronouns and Pronominal Adjectives......Page 63
LESSON VII - The Verb: Simple Tenses. Verbal Sentences......Page 75
LESSON VIII - Adverbs. Prepositions. Conjunctions......Page 84
LESSON IX - The Verb: Compound Tenses. Uses of Tenses. Compound Verbs......Page 97
LESSON X - Complex Sentences (Co-ordinate, Subordinate). Impersonal Verbs. Temporal Clauses......Page 110
LESSON XI - Complex Sentences (cont.) (Relative Clauses)......Page 120
LESSON XII - Complex Sentences (cont.) (Indefinite Relative. Other Conjunctions. Conditional Sentences)......Page 133
LESSON XIII - Numerals. Time. Age. Dates......Page 142
LESSON XIV - Persian Word Formation......Page 154
LESSON XV - The Arabic Element in Persian......Page 167
APPENDIX A - The Nastaʔliq Script......Page 181
APPENDIX B - The Šekaste Script......Page 186
APPENDIX C - Books for Further Study and Reading......Page 195
Persian-English vocabulary......Page 197
English-Persian vocabulary......Page 220
Comparative Persian and Christian Calendars......Page 229
Index......Page 231
Lesson 1, 2......Page 237
Lesson 3, 4......Page 238
Lesson 5......Page 239
Lesson 6, 7......Page 240
Lesson 8......Page 241
Lesson 9, 10......Page 242
Lesson 11......Page 243
Lesson 12......Page 244
Lesson 13......Page 245
Lesson 14......Page 246
Lesson 15......Page 247

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Персидский язык;Грамматика;