Chinese Grammar

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The following grammar topics are available for Mandarin Chinese, since the grammar of this language can be considerably different from many other languages, topics can be discussed in a somewhat untraditional way for western languages. Moreover, we will focus on teaching grammar by example.

Choose a grammar topic, it is highly recommended to view the topics in the order they appear:

• Referring to Persons (Personal Pronouns)
• Expressing Personal Possession (Possessive Adjectives/Pronouns)
• Referring to things (demonstrative pronouns)

• Basic Sentences: Word Order
• Basic Sentences: Articles and Plural
• Basic Sentences: Expressing TO BE
• Basic Sentences: Sentences describing properties (nominal sentences with an adjective as predicate)

• Adjectives

• Questions: yes/no Questions
• Questions: Question Words (Interrogative Pronouns)
• Using question words in a non-interrogative way

• Auxiliary verbs and their negation

• Specifying Location
• Expressing Past/Present/Future
• Specifying Time
• Expressing Manner and Degree
• Expressing Result
• Sentence final particles

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