Yufa! A Practical Guide to Mandarin Chinese Grammar

Wen-Hua Teng is Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies, at the University of Texas at Austin, USA

• 1 The basic formation of a Chinese sentence2 The eleven types of question in Chinese 3 The use of □□, □□ and □□ and the definiteness of nouns 4 The functions of □□, relative clauses and noun clauses 5 Position words 6 Prepositional constructions 7 Imperative sentences and the use of □□ 8 Chinese verbs9 The progressive aspect and the continuous aspect10 The use of □□ (the perfective aspect particle andmodal particle) 11 The use of □□ (the experiential aspect particle) 12 Modal verbs 13 The complement of state and the complement of degree 14 The complement of duration 15 The complement of quantity 16 The complement of direction 17 The complement of result 18 The complement of potential 19 The adverbial modifi er with □□ 20 The □□……□□ structure 21 Subjectless sentences and existential sentences 22 The □□ structure 23 Passive structures 24 Making comparisons (1) 25 Making comparisons (2) 26 Measure words 27 Verb reduplication and adjective reduplication 28 The use of □□□□, □□□□ and □□□□ 29 Modal particles 30 Conjunctive pairs 31 Conjunctions used in context 32 The use of □□ and □□ 33 The use of adverbs in contracted sentences34 The use of interrogative pronouns 35 Rhetorical questions