Intermediate Persian

A Grammar and Workbook

Saeed Yousef, Hayedeh Torabi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9780415616539
  9780415616539
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135017934
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Journalism
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible grammar and related exercises in a single volume. Each of the fourteen units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises to help learners reinforce and consolidate their knowledge.There are additionally four appendices covering colloquial, polite, literary and journalistic styles.

Features include:

• clear, accessible format
• many useful language examples
• clear, jargon-free explanations of grammar
• abundant exercises with full answer key
• units covering different levels of language
• a glossary of Persian-English terms that includes all Persian simple verbs and their roots
• subject index

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Intermediate Persian reviews many of the principle elements presented in its sister volume, Basic Persian, and introduces more advanced features and structures of the language. The two books form a compendium of the essentials of Persian grammar.

User-friendly and engaging, Intermediate Persian is suitable for both class use and independent study, making it an ideal grammar reference and practice resource for students and learners with some knowledge of the language.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Indirect speech
• 2 'Self': emphatic, reflexive and possessive usages of khod Objective pronouns
• 3 Definite and indefinite, singular and plural: review and expansion Vocative case
• 4 Persian equivalents of English modal verbs More on subjunctive
• 5 More on conditionals If, unless; otherwise, as if
• 6 Causative form Optative mood Past participle as verb Deleting a similar verb Regulars on the march!
• 7 Impersonal forms
• 8 Position of verbs in the sentence Verbs of state Putting on and taking off clothes To want, to be able to, to know
• 9 More on compound verbs Ways to avoid passive
• 10 Nouns and adjectives made from verbs Some prefixes and suffixes
• 11 Exclamative form More on adjectives/adverbs Comparison of adjectives Ezāfe
• 12 Correlative conjunctions More on subordinate clauses A review of tā
• 13 How to use digar, hanuz, ham faghat/tanhā
• 14 Remember/forget Arrange, change, difference Meaning and 'to mean'
• Appendix I Language of politeness and courtesy
• Appendix II Colloquial Persian/Tehrani
• Appendix III Literary, poetical, archaic
• Appendix IV Good, bad and ugly Persian Common mistakes
• Key to exercises
• Persian-English glossary (including all Persian simple verbs)
• Index