Publisher's Synopsis
Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar: A Practical Guide, and Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook, both in their third edition, provide an innovative reference guide to Mandarin Chinese, alongside exercises and language tasks to facilitate practice and reinforce language use.
The Grammar is divided into two parts. Part A covers traditional grammar points such as phrase order, and the structure of noun phrases, and verb phrases. Part B is carefully organized around language functions and situations such as:
Asking questions
Communication strategies
Making comparisons
Giving orders and making requests
Expressing apologies, regrets, and sympathy
Meanwhile, the Workbook's main features include:
- Exercises at various levels of challenge for a broad range of learners
- Cross-referencing to the related Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar
- A comprehensive index to exercises alphabetically arranged in terms of structures, functions, and key Chinese structure vocabulary.
- An extensive answer key at the back to enable students to check on their progress,
The third edition includes new sections on character structure, social media, speaker perspective, updated illustrative sentences, exapanded exercises including new task-based exercises, and an expanded index.
Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar is ideal for all learners of Mandarin Chinese, from beginner to intermediate and advanced students.
