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English Grammar for Chinese Speakers is the only book available for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level Chinese students, teachers, interpreters, and translators interested in mastering the English language. The book divides English grammar learning into three basic sentence patterns:
1. subject – link verb – predicative,
2. subject – predicate, and
3. there be.
Grammar content is essential for students to acquire the important skills and master the English language. Tools used in the book are easy to learn and understand. Furthermore, the book contains very useful vocabulary for practice in every day’s life communications. Students are sure to get the best results through learning the parts of speech and sentences. When applying all the vocabulary in this book into the three basic sentence patterns, students will be ready to enter into the mainstream English-speaking society everywhere.
English Grammar for Chinese Speakers is the only book available for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level Chinese students, teachers, interpreters, and translators interested in mastering the English language. The book divides English grammar learning into three basic sentence patterns:
1. subject – link verb – predicative,
2. subject – predicate, and
3. there be.
Grammar content is essential for students to acquire the important skills and master the English language. Tools used in the book are easy to learn and understand. Furthermore, the book contains very useful vocabulary for practice in every day’s life communications. Students are sure to get the best results through learning the parts of speech and sentences. When applying all the vocabulary in this book into the three basic sentence patterns, students will be ready to enter into the mainstream English-speaking society everywhere.
Due to publisher restrictions the library cannot purchase additional copies of this title, and we apologize if there is a long waiting list. Be sure to check for other copies, because there may be other editions available.
Due to publisher restrictions the library cannot purchase additional copies of this title, and we apologize if there is a long waiting list. Be sure to check for other copies, because there may be other editions available.
Excerpts-
The Author’s Preface
English Grammar for Chinese Speakers is the newest and best book which is available for the beginners, intermediate level and advanced level students.
If you just begin to learn English, if you want to pass the TOEFL, ILTS, etc, if you want to be an English teacher, translator or interpreter, if you want to
have a rich life in the English spoken country, then this book is the best way to make your dreams to be come true.
The Theory Of This Book If the students want to get the best results in learning English, they have to follow three steps: Firstly, they have to possess the
Pronunciation Skills; Secondly, they have to master the grammar skills; Thirdly, they have to practice the communicative skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing & translating.
The Feature Of This Book: The authors put all the English grammar phenomenon into the Three Basic Sentence Patterns: “Subject – Link verb – predicative”
Sentence Pattern, “Subject – Predicate” Sentence Pattern, and “There be” Sentence Patterns. It’s not only easy to learn, but also easy to understand.
The Instruction Of This Book: The pronunciation is important. The grammar is more important. The communicative skills of listening, speaking, reading,
writing and translating are the most important. Though there are not too many grammar contents in this book, yet they are all the quintessence for you to master. Though there are many vocabulary in this book, yet they are
all useful. If you can master them and practice them in your everyday 's life, you are sure to get the best results.
The results Of This Book: Through learning the parts of speech and the members of
sentences, you can master the basic English grammar. If you can apply all the vocabulary in this book into the Three Basic Sentence Patterns, you can
be entered into the mainstream society of Canada.
Synopsis-
English Grammar for Chinese Speakers is the only book available for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level Chinese students, teachers, interpreters, and translators interested in mastering the English language. The book divides English grammar learning into three basic sentence patterns:
1. subject – link verb – predicative,
2. subject – predicate, and
3. there be.
Grammar content is essential for students to acquire the important skills and master the English language. Tools used in the book are easy to learn and understand. Furthermore, the book contains very useful vocabulary for practice in every day’s life communications. Students are sure to get the best results through learning the parts of speech and sentences. When applying all the vocabulary in this book into the three basic sentence patterns, students will be ready to enter into the mainstream English-speaking society everywhere.
About the Author-
Linan Shi, an English professor/advanced translator from China, is co-author of English Pronunciation for Chinese Speakers, one of the editorial board of A New English – Chinese Abbreviate Dictionary and has a contributing paper in Translators Techniques. Linan acted as an advanced translator while accompanying leaders of the Chinese Government and Entrepreneurs in their travels to investigate and negotiate import-export business. Linan is currently a teacher of English as a second language in Toronto. He is an advanced translatorator at the Translation Bureau of Canada. He is also an advanced translator at the Multi-lingual Community Interpreter Services Ontario and at the Toronto District School Board.
Table of Contents-
Contents
Lesson One The Overview of the Grammar 9
Lesson Two Nouns 13
Lesson Three Articles 21
Lesson Four Pronouns 24
Lesson Five Preposition 39
Lesson Six Numerals 48
Lesson Seven Conjunctions 62
Lesson Eight Adjectives 67
Lesson Nine Adverbs 82
Lesson Ten Interjection 93
Lesson Eleven Verbs 96
Lesson Twelve Action Verbs 99
Lesson Thirteen Link Verbs 101
Lesson Fourteen Modal Verbs 105
Lesson Fifteen Auxiliary Verbs 113
Lesson Sixteen Phrasal Verbs 116
Lesson Seventeen Tenses 123
Lesson Eighteen Voices 171
Lesson Nineteen Mood 184
Lesson Twenty Infinitive 189
Lesson Twenty – One Gerund 193
Lesson Twenty – Two Participles 196
Lesson Twenty – Three Four Kinds of Sentences 199
Lesson Twenty – Four Members of Sentences 207
Lesson Twenty – Five Compound Complex Sentences 213
Lesson Twenty – Six Hypotactic Clause 215
Lesson Twenty – Seven Word Building and Useful Knowledge 226
Lesson Twenty – Eight Punctuation 233
Reviews-
Lesson One A General Overview of the Grammar
Learning English according to the following three steps, you can get the best results.
1. the basic skills of pronunciation.
2. the basic skills of grammar.
3. practicing the skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating.
As long as you are not the person who is researching the English grammar, you only
need to grasp the basic grammar, you can learn English easily.
morphology Grasp the ten parts grammar of speech mainly.
syntax Know the word or phrase are acted as the members of the
sentence.
1. Content words
2. Function words
The ten parts of speech are divided into three kinds
3. Independent elements
Content words noun, numeral, adjective, adverb and action verb
Function words article, preposition, conjunction, pronoun, link verb,
auxiliary verb, modal verb
Independent elements interjection
Pronunciation
Content words Content words are stressed.
Function words
Function words are non-stressed.
But if they are emphasized, they should be stressed. At this
situation, they are usually at the beginning of the sentence or at
the end of the sentence.
Ten Parts of Speech
Parts of speech Definition
Noun is the word of the person, matter, thing, abstraction concept,
place, organization, etc.
Adjective
is used as attribute to modify noun or as predictive to express the
subject’s character, quality, status, etc.
It can also be used as adverbial, object complement, etc.
Adverb
is used as adverbial to modify verb, adjective, adverb or the
whole sentence or as predictive to express the subject’s
character, status, etc.
Numeral Is divided into the cardinals or ordinals.
Article
can’t be used alone. It is before the noun and express the noun. It
is a function word. It is non-stressed.
Preposition
can’t be used alone. It must be put before its object. This object
is usually a noun or something equal to the noun. That means
this preposition must be plus the noun to form the prepositional
phrase. Only the prepositional phrase can be used in the
sentence. It can only be used as the predictive, attribute and
adverbial.
It is a function word. It is non-stressed.
Conjunction
is a function word. It is non-stressed. It is not used to be the
members of the sentence. It is only used to connect word and
word, phrase and phrase, sentence and sentence.
Pronoun
replaces the noun or adjective.
It is a function word. It is non-stressed.
Verb
means action or status. (There are four kinds of verbs: action
verb, link verb, auxiliary verb and modal verb.)
Interjection expresses the feelings.
The Members of Sentences
members of
the sentence
Definition
1. In the “subject – link verb – predictive” sentence pattern,
subject means person, matter or thing which is mainly expressed in
the sentence.
2. In the “There be” sentence pattern,
subject means person, matter or thing which is mainly expressed in
the sentence.
subject
3. In the “subject – predicate” sentence pattern,
subject means the person who does the action. It is usually a noun or
something equal to the noun.
predicate
means the action or status. Only the action verb, link verb, auxiliary
verb and modal verb can be used as the predicate.
object
means the object which is acted by the subject.
It is usually a noun or something equal to the noun.
predictive
expresses the subject’s identity, character, quality, status, etc. It is
usually a noun, an adjective, an adverb, prepositional phrase, clause,
etc.
attribute
modifies the noun. It is usually an adjective or something equal to the
adjective.
adverbial
modifies the verb, adjective, adverb or the whole sentence. It is
usually an adverb or something equal to the adverb.
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