Here is a concise guide to supplement any course of study and help with homework, travel, and test preparation. Topics include word order, time, nouns, verbs, adjectives, word choices with verbs and adverbs, and letter writing. The simple format has one goal: quick mastery and growing confidence.Qin Xue Herzberg, a graduate of Beijing Normal University, has taught Chinese for decades and has been an upper-level Chinese professor at Calvin College for ten years.Larry Herzberg did his PhD work in Chinese and founded the Chinese language programs at Albion College and Calvin College.Qin and Larry live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are co-authors of the popular China Survival Guide as well as Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings.
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Larry Herzberg. Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE. Word order
CHAPTER TWO. Time Expressions
CHAPTER THREE. Nouns
CHAPTER FOUR. VERBS
CHAPTER FIVE. Adjectives
CHAPTER SIX. Various uses of the particle le 了
CHAPTER SEVEN. Various Uses of the Particle de: de 的 vs. de 得 vs. de 地
CHAPTER EIGHT. Conjunctions: and, or
CHAPTER NINE. Subordinate Clauses
CHAPTER TEN. How to Express the Verb “Can” in Chinese (A Huge Can of Worms!)
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Word-Choice Issues with Certain Important Verbs
CHAPTER TWELVE. Word-Choice Issues with Adverbs
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Letter Writing: Greetings, salutations, and forms of address
Index of Headings
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Basic Patterns
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We divided the entries into various rather conventional topics, such as parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, conjunctions) as well as into basic topics, such as word order, time expressions, even letter writing.
One persistent difficulty is word choice when translating verbs from English into Chinese. While English is more precise when it comes to nouns and adjectives, the Chinese tend to be more precise in their use of verbs. For example, they have five ways to translate the verb “to tell,” depending on whether one is telling a story, telling something to someone (informing), telling someone to do something, and so on.
