Guide to Chinese Grammar: A Study Aid

You can talk about grammar in different ways.

Imagine you are studying how a car works, and someone teaches you the names of each part under the hood right away, while someone else explains what each mechanism is for and what will happen if it breaks down. If you are not a linguistics student, you probably need not so much the terms as a general understanding of how Chinese grammar "works." This is the kind of guide you have before you.

This book will be understandable for everyone: a school student learning Chinese as a second foreign language, a person of any profession studying Chinese "for themselves," a student from a non-linguistic specialization who primarily wants to learn to use the language correctly. This guide is best suited for readers with some experience (at the level of old HSK 3), but it will also be useful for beginners. Even those for whom the main information will be known will definitely find something new for themselves.