Reference:Yufa! A Practical Guide to Mandarin Chinese Grammar

Yufa! A Practical Guide to Mandarin Chinese Grammar by Wen-Hua Teng, textbooks in the United States. It is not available for purchase in mainland China.

YUFA! A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MANDARIN CHINESE GRAMMAR takes a unique approach to explaining the major topics of Mandarin Chinese grammar. By providing examples that are rooted in realistic situations, the author shows you how grammar is used in everyday life.The book features:

Chinese characters, pinyin and English translations Realistic scenarios to provide you with an interesting context in which to learn grammar

Varied and imaginative exercises so you can review your progress easily.

Yufa provides an admirably clear and comprehensive account of Mandarin Chinese Grammar. It is accessible and free of confusing jargon without ever trivialising or over-simplifying its subject matter. Excellent use is made of examples to explain grammatical points in context. This will be an invaluable tool for both students and teachers alike. I will certainly recommend it to my own students.

Grammar Points by Chapter

1. The basic formation of a Chinese sentence
2. The eleven types of question in Chinese
3. The use of 是，在and有and the definiteness of nouns
4. The functions of 的，relative clauses and noun clauses
5. Position words
6. Prepositional constructions
7. Imperative sentences and the use of 别
8. The progressive aspect and the continuous aspect
9. The use of 了(the perfective aspect particle and modal particle)
10. The use of 过(the experiential aspect particle)
11. Auxiliary verbs
12. The complement of stage and the complement of degree
13. The complement of duration
14. The complement of quantity
15. The complement of direction
16. The complement of result
17. The complement of potential
18. The adverbial modifier with 地
19. The 是......的 structure
20. Subjectless sentences and existential sentences
21. The 把 stucture
22. Passive structures
23. Making comparisons (1)
24. Making comparisons (2)
25. Measure words
26. Verb reduplication and adjective reduplication
27. The use of 以前，以后 and 时候
28. Modal particles
29. Conjunctive pairs
30. Conjunctions used in context
31. The use of 才 and 就
32. The use of adverbs in contracted sentences
33. The use of interrogative pronouns
34. Rhetorical questions