Ebook: A reference grammar of Chinese sentences with exercises

This book is intended to serve as a general guide to the structure of Chinese sentences. It is designed as a supplementary textbook to be used at all levels of instruction; it would not be appropriate as the principal classroom textbook for beginning courses in Chinese. We have tried to make the grammatical explanations and examples clear enough for beginning students at the university level, but since the book is primarily a reference grammar we have tried not to sacrifice comprehensiveness for the sake of simplicity. The first six chapters of the book cover structures that must be learned in beginning and intermediate classes9 but portions of these chapters and most of the material in the last six chapters would not be covered until advanced courses in Chinese grammar and stylistics. Each sentence structure is not only descriptively analyzed, but also formulated in a pedagogical pattern with examples. Exercises are provided in each unit of the chapter to give students practice in writing and translation.