Yufa!: a practical guide to Mandarin Chinese grammar

Wen-Hua Teng breaks the book into three highly effective sections, examining the core structures of Chinese grammar, describing the use of the language in context, and highlighting useful expressions and patterns. Each grammatical topic is clearly and simply introduced. The text offers sample sentences in Chinese characters and Pinyin (followed by English translations), discusses existing exceptions to a particular rule, and provides exercises that students can use to reinforce the lesson.

Includes index.

1. The basic formation of a Chinese sentence -- 2. The eleven types of question in Chinese -- 3. The use of shi, zai and you and the definiteness of nouns -- 4. The functions of de, relative clauses and noun clauses -- 5. Position words -- 6. Prepositional constructions -- 7. Imperative sentences and the use of bie -- 8. The progressive aspect and the continuous aspect -- 9. The use of liao (the perfective aspect particle and modal particle) -- 10. The use of guo (the experiential aspect particle) -- 11. Auxiliary verbs -- 12. The complement of state and the complement of degree -- 13. The complement of duration -- 14. The complement of quantity -- 15. The complement of direction -- 16. The complement of result -- 17. The complement of potential -- 18. The adverbial modifier with di -- 19. The shi ... de structure -- 20. Subjectless sentences and existential sentences -- 21. The ba structure -- 22. Passive structures -- 23. Making comparisons (1) -- 24. Making comparisons (2) -- 25. Measure words -- 26. Verb reduplication and adjective reduplication -- 27. The use of yi qian, yi hou and shi hou -- 28. Modal particles -- 29. Conjunctive pairs -- 30. Conjunctions used in context -- …