Intermediate Chinese

A Grammar and Workbook

Po-Ching Yip, Don Rimmington

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780415486316
  9780415486309
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134011308
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Intermediate Chinese is the ideal reference and practice book for students with some knowledge of the language. Each of the 25 units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises. Features include:

• clear, accessible format
• many useful language examples
• jargon-free grammar explanations
• sample drills and exercises with full answer key

All Chinese entries are presented in both pinyin romanisation and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition in both the spoken and the written language. This new edition also includes a glossary of vocabulary and aglossary of grammatical terms.

Intermediate Chinese reviews the principal elements presented in its sister volume, Basic Chinese, and introduces more complicated structures. The two books form a compendium of the essentials of Chinese grammar.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Unit One The 把 bǎ structure
• Unit Two The 被 bèi structure
• Unit Three Serial constructions
• Unit Four Causative constructions
• Unit Five Dative constructions with direct and indirect objects
• Unit Six Existence sentences
• Unit Seven Subject-predicate and topic-comment sentences
• Unit Eight Sentence particle 了 le
• Unit Nine Abbreviated sentences
• Unit Ten Rhetorical questions
• Unit Eleven Conjunctions and conjunctives linking clauses in compound sentences (1)
• Unit Twelve Conjunctions and conjunctives linking clauses in compound sentences (2)
• Unit Thirteen Conjunctions linking words or phrases (summary)
• Unit Fourteen Attributives (summary)
• Unit Fifteen Adverbials (summary)
• Unit Sixteen 的 de, 得 de, 地 de (summary)
• Unit Seventeen ‘Every’, ‘each’ - 每 měi, 各 gè; ‘All’ - 一切 yīqiè, 所有 suŏyŏu and indefinite pronouns
• Unit Eighteen Comparisons with 比 bǐ and 没有 méiyǒu (summary)
• Unit Nineteen Various uses of 有 yǒu (summary)
• Unit Twenty Idiomatic uses of 是 shì (summary)
• Unit Twenty-One The aspect marker 了 le (summary)
• 1 The aspect markers 着 zhe, (正) 在 (zhèng)zài and 过 guo (summary)
• 1 The idiomatic uses of 来着 lái zhe, 呗 bei,嘛 ma, 罢了 bà le, 么 me and 吧 ba
• Unit Twenty-Four The idiomatic uses of 呢 ne
• Unit Twenty-Five Onomatopoeia and interjection
• Key To Exercises
• Vocabulary List
• Vocabulary List
• Glossary of Grammatical Terms
• Index