Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook

ISBN-13: 9781032369303 / Miękka / 2024 / 376 str.

Meng Yeh

Opis

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook, third edition, is a book of exercises and language tasks to facilitate practice and reinforce language use.

Spis treści

Introduction

How to use this book

Part A: Structures

1 Overview of Pronunciation and Pinyin Romanization

2 Syllable, Meaning, and Word

3 The Chinese Writing System: An Overview

4 Phrase order in the Mandarin sentence  

5 Nouns

6 Numbers

7 Specifiers and Demonstratives

8 Classifiers

9 Noun Phrases

10 Adjectives and Adjectival Verbs

11 Stative Verbs

12 Modal Verbs

13 Action Verbs

14 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

15 Adverbs

16 Conjunctions

17 Aspect

18 Resulative Verbs 

19 Directional Verbs 

20  把 Bǎ Sentences: The 'Disposal' Construction

21 The Passive

Part B: Situations and Functions

22 Names, Kinship Terms, Titles, and Terms of Address

23 Introductions

24 Greetings and Goodbyes

25 Basic Strategies for Communication

26 Telecommunications and E-Communications: Telephones, the Internet, and Social Media

27 Negating Information

28 Asking questions, Answering Questions, and Reporting Questions

29 Expressing Identification, Possession, and Existence 

30 Describing People, Places, and Things

31 Describing How Actions are Performed

32 Indicating Result, Conclusion, Potential, and Extent

33 Making Comparisons

34 Talking About the Present

35 Talking About Habitual Actions

36 Talking About the Future

37 Indicating Completion and Talking About the Past

38 Talking About Change, New Situations, and Changing Situations

39 Talking About Duration and Frequency 

40 Expressing Additional Information

41 Expressing Contrast

42 Expressing Sequence

43 Expressing Simultaneous Situations

44 Expressing Cause and Effect or Reason and Result

45 Expressing Conditions

46. Expressing ‘Both,’ ‘All,’ ‘Every,’ ‘Any,’ ‘None,’ ‘Not Any,’ and ‘No Matter How’

47 Expressing Location and Distance

48 Talking about Movement, Directions, and Means of Transportation

49 Talking about Clock Time and Calendar Time 

50 Expressing Obligation and Prohibitions

51 Expressing Commands and Permission

52 Expressing Ability and Possibility

53 Expressing Desires, Needs, Preferences, and Willingness

54 Expressing Knowledge, Advice, and Opinions

55 Expressing Fear, Worry, and Anxiety

56 Expressing Speaker Attitudes and Perspectives with Interjections and Final Particles

57 Topic, Focus, and Emphasis

58 Guest and Host

59 Giving and Responding to Compliments 

60 Expressing Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction

61 Expressing Gratitude and Responding to Expressions of Gratitude

62 Invitations, Requests, and Refusals

63 Expressing Apologies, Regrets, Sympathy, and Bad News

64 Expressing Congratulations and Good Wishes

Answer Key

O autorze

Claudia Ross, Professor Emeritus of Chinese, College of the Holy Cross.

Jing-Heng Sheng Ma, Professor Emeritus of Chinese, Wellesley College.

Baozhang He, Associate Professor Emeritus of Chinese, College of the Holy Cross.

Pei-Chia Chen, Senior Lecturer and Academic Coordinator of the Chinese Program, University of California San Diego.

Meng Yeh, Teaching Professor of Chinese, Rice University.