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These books following, are books that I have used myself to help
learn Chinese. I am only recommending books that I really think are
helpful as I think that it can be very hard to separate the wheat
from the chaff.
Basic Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook by Yip
Po-Ching and Don
Rimmington
Some of the things the book covers are: Attributive, predicate,
comparisons, verbs and aspect markers, modal verbs, types of
question, complements of direction, coverbal phrases potential
complements.
I have found this book to be really useful. What I like about it
is the way that the chapters are all only about 5 pages each but
they go into a lot of depth. The length of the chapters mean that
it's possible to do one chapter a day and the workbook side of it
means that have a lot of opportunities to check that you know the
particular chapter.
My version of this book has black and purple covers, with the
same design as the Intermediate book.
Intermediate Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook by
Yip Po-Ching and Don Rimmington
Some of the things the book covers are: Intermediate:
ba structure, bei structure, dative constructions, causative
constructions, serial constructions, abbreviated sentences,
conjunctions and linking clauses in compound sentences, aspect
marker le.
This book has exactly the same approach as the Basic Chinese
workbook but it is at a higher level. It assumes that you have used
the Basic Chinese workbook, but if you haven't and you know a bit
of Chinese grammar then it will also be good for you.
Incidentally, both of the authors worked at my university when
they completed these books but they no longer work there. They have
written several books about grammar but these ones I have had
personal experience of. There also seem to be some books by them
which do not seem to use characters at all and rather pinyin, and I
would not want to recommend these ones.
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