Intermediate Chinese: A Grammar and WorkbookIntermediate Chinese is intended for students who have some knowledge of the language. Each of the twenty five units deal with a particualr grammar point and provide associated exercises. Features include: * clear, accessible format * many useful language examples * jargon-free grammar explanations * ample drills and exercises * full key to exercises All Mandarin Chinese entries are presented in both pinyin romanization and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition in both written and spoken Chinese. Intermediate Chinese reviews the principal elements introduced in Basic Chinese and introduces more complicated structures. The two books form a compendium of all the main features of Chinese syntax. |
Contents
The ba structure | 1 |
The bei structure | 9 |
Dative constructions with direct and indirect objects | 15 |
Causative constructions | 20 |
Serial constructions | 25 |
Existence sentences | 30 |
Subjectpredicate and topiccomment sentences | 36 |
Sentence particle le | 43 |
Adverbials summary | 96 |
de de de summary | 102 |
Every each mei ge and indefinite pronouns | 110 |
Comparisons with bi and meiyou summary | 117 |
Various uses of you summary | 125 |
Idiomatic uses of shì summary | 132 |
The aspect marker le summary | 142 |
The aspect markers zhe zhèngzài and guo summary | 150 |
Abbreviated sentences | 50 |
Rhetorical questions | 58 |
Conjunctions and conjunctives linking clauses in compound sentences 1 | 65 |
Conjunctions and conjunctives linking clauses in compound sentences 2 | 73 |
Conjunctions linking words or phrases summary | 79 |
Attributives summary | 86 |
The idiomatic uses of lai zhe bei ma ba le me and ba | 157 |
The idiomatic uses of ne | 161 |
Onomatopoeia and interjection | 166 |
Key to exercises | 172 |
Other editions - View all
Intermediate Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook Po-ching Yip,Don Rimmington,Xiaoming Zhang,Rachel Henson Limited preview - 1998 |
Intermediate Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook Po-ching Yip,Don Rimmington,Xiaoming Zhang,Rachel Henson No preview available - 1998 |
Common terms and phrases
action adjective adverbials attributive baba Basic Chinese bought brother chang child Chinese sentences chuan clause complement Complete conjunctions construction dian door English example Exercise expression haishi haizi indicate jian shi jiao kuai laoshl letter liang meaning meiyou mother na/nei Note noun object pair pengyou phrase placed qian qiche question rang reference result shang shei/shui shenme shi yl shuo speak structure tamen teacher tian tiao tomorrow tone Translate the following Unit verb wang women xiang xiao younger zhang zhao zhe/zhei jian zher zhong