English Grammar for Students of Chinese:
The Study Guide for Those Learning Chinese
ISBN: 978-0-934034-39-5
Pp. 115
$19.95
Need help learning Chinese grammar?
Supplement your textbook with the O&H Chinese Study Guide — learn the English grammatical terms your Chinese textbook assumes you know.
You will learn: see Chinese Contents
Parts of speech — how to identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions . . .
Question: Why learn parts of speech?
So you’ll be able to apply the correct rules
in Chinese.
Example: The verb shì to be is omitted if it precedes an adjective, but it is not omitted if it precedes a noun.
Functions of words — how to identify subjects, direct and indirect objects . . .
Question: Why learn the functions of words?
So you’ll know how to structure Chinese
sentences.
Example: In an English sentence, the indirect object can precede the direct object, but in Chinese the
direct object always precedes the indirect object.
Grammatical terms — explanation of phrase, clause, possessive . . .
Question: Why learn grammatical terms?
So you’ll be able to structure a Chinese sentence correctly.
Example: Recognizing the different types of clauses enables you to place them in the correct sequence
in a Chinese sentence.
Step-by-step analysis of examples — how to get from an English structure to an equivalent Chinese structure, see Chinese Chapter
Question: Why offer a step-by-step analysis of examples?
So you’ll know how to get from an English structure
to a Chinese structure.
Example: The book I read was interesting.
Wo kàn de nà ben shu hen yòuyisi.
(word-for-word: I to read that book very interesting)
"This book is like a gold mine.
It has in one source all the terms
I haven’t fully grasped . . . It has helped me to reach a whole
new level of understanding
in my studies."
—Jet Axtell, Brigham Young University, Idaho
Each chapter covers a grammar point
In English
- grammar is explained as it relates to English, with examples
In Chinese
- grammar is explained as it relates to Chinese
- examples with word-for-word meaning and grammatical identification
Chinese words in the body of the text are in pinyin. You can download the examples in Chinese characters, see Chinese characters.