Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook (Modern Grammar Workbooks)

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Contents
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 Resultative 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 obligations 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
Index