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Practical, Comprehensive, and Free! Resources for Chinese grammar have been scattered, incomprehensible, and hidden behind paywalls for way too long. Wikipedia has shown us a better way, and this wiki has taken up the challenge of making Chinese grammar accessible to all. We've already got 2,125 articles online, and we're growing! If you'd like to contribute, please get in touch.

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Get Started New to learning Chinese? Head over to our Learner FAQ. Here are some of the "big topics" visited and revisited by learners: How to use 了 (le) Word Order Complements The 是……的 (shi... de) Construction 把 (ba) Sentences 被 (bei) Sentences The particle 着 (zhe) The Chinese Grammar Wiki likes to break things down by difficulty level. Here is just a small selection of articles from the first four levels which you might like to read up on: Beginner (Level A1) Basic sentence order Suggestions with ba Negation of past actions Elementary (Level A2) "Zai" following verbs Expressing duration Expressing "a little too" with "you dian" Intermediate (Level B1) Expressing actions in progress (full form) Expressing the Self-Evident with "ma" Ba sentence Upper Intermediate (Level B2) Emphatic adverb "ke" Expressing Fractions with "fenzhi" Emphasizing the Doer of an Action with "you"

Referenced Throughout To create this grammar wiki, AllSet Learning and its editor partners have made extensive use of various high-quality Chinese grammar reference materials. We strongly recommend them to any serious student of Chinese grammar. Purchasing these books by clicking on the grammar references linked within this website will also help to support this project. Some of the key reference materials for this wiki have been: Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar →buy Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar: A Practical Guide →buy Common Chinese Patterns 330 (汉语常用格式330例) →buy A Practical Chinese Grammar For Foreigners (外国人实用汉语语法) →buy Structures of Mandarin Chinese for speakers of English 中文语法快易通：句型结构 →buy See more... Textbook Friendly This is the Internet Age, but it's not yet time to throw out those textbooks! We see the value in textbook grammar explanations and exercises, and are doing our best to link textbook to the Chinese Grammar Wiki content. To see how it works, try finding your own textbook in our list, and then seeing what it links to. (If there are no links yet, there will be soon!) Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 1 →buy Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 2 →buy New Practical Chinese Reader 1 (新实用汉语课本1) →buy Look for other textbooks...

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What you see here is the beta version of the new AllSet Learning Grammar Wiki. We are slowly adding content and filling out the grammar information and sample sentences. We will prioritize the content which is most relevant to your study needs.

About AllSet Learning

AllSet Learning is a Shanghai-based learning consultancy dedicated to helping foreigners better learn Mandarin Chinese. While many of the company's services are only available to clients physically in Shanghai, this wiki is open to the public through a Creative Commons license. When other projects become available, we will definitely put a notice here!