Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook

Description

Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises accessible grammar exercises in a single volume. Each of the 14 units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises to help learners reinforce and consolidate their knowledge. In addition, it features four appendices, covering colloquial, polite, literary and journalistic styles. Intermediate Persian reviews the principles presented in Basic Persian and introduces more-advanced features and structures of the language. User-friendly and engaging, Intermediate Persian is suitable for both class use and independent study. This edition is completely revised with additional features, such as a review chapter and translations of all the examples. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Authors’ preface to the second edition Introduction 0 A quick review of Basic Persian 1 Indirect speech 2 “Self ”: emphatic, reflexive and possessive usages of khod. Objective pronouns 3 Definite and indefinite, singular and plural: Review and expansion Vocative case 4 Persian equivalents of English modal verbs More on subjunctive 5 More on conditionals If, unless; otherwise, as if 6 Causative form Optative mood Past participle as verb Deleting a similar verb Regulars on the march 7 Impersonal forms 8 The position of verbs in a sentence Verbs of state Putting on and taking off clothes To want, to be able to, to know 9 More on compound verbs Ways to avoid passive 10 Nouns and adjectives, from verbs Some prefixes and suffixes 11 Exclamative form More on adjectives/adverbs, comparison of adjectives Ezāfe 12 Correlative conjunctions More on subordinate clauses A review of tā 13 How to use digar, hanuz, ham, faghat/tanhā 14 Remember/forget Arrange, change, difference Meaning/“to mean” Appendix I: Language of politeness and courtesy Appendix II: Colloquial Persian/Tehrāni Appendix III: Literary, poetical, archaic Appendix IV: Good, bad and ugly Persian Common mistakes Key to the exercises Persian–English Glossary (includes all Persian simple verbs) Index