Contents
- Part A Structures How to use this book ix
- romanization 1 Overview of pronunciation and Pinyin
- 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 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 ᣀ bt sentences: the ‘disposal’ construction vi
- 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
- telephones, the internet, and faxes 26 Telecommunications and e-communications:
- 27 Negating information
- 28 Asking questions and replying to questions
- existence 29 Expressing identification, possession, and
- 30 Describing people, places, and things
- 31 Describing how actions are performed
- and extent 32 Indicating result, conclusion, potential,
- 33 Making comparisons
- 34 Talking about the present
- 35 Talking about habitual actions
- 36 Talking about the future
- the past 37 Indicating completion and talking about
- and changing situations 38 Talking about change, new 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 vii
- 45 Expressing conditions
- ‘not any,’ and ‘no matter how’ 46 Expressing ‘both,’ ‘all,’ ‘every,’ ‘any,’ ‘none,’
- 47 Expressing location and distance
- means of transportation 48 Talking about movement, directions, and
- 49 Talking about clock time and calendar time
- 50 Expressing obligations and prohibitions
- 51 Expressing commands and permission
- 52 Expressing ability and possibility
- and willingness 53 Expressing desires, needs, preferences,
- 54 Expressing knowledge, advice, and opinions
- 55 Expressing fear, worry, and anxiety
- 56 Expressing speaker attitudes and perspectives
- 57 Topic, focus, and emphasis
- 58 Guest and host
- 59 Giving and responding to compliments
- 60 Expressing satisfaction and dissatisfaction
- expressions of gratitude 61 Expressing gratitude and responding to
- 62 Invitations, requests, and refusals
- and bad news 63 Expressing apologies, regrets, sympathy,
- 64 Expressing congratulations and good wishes
- Answer key
- Index