Wen-Hua Teng is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author of Yufa: A Practical Guide to Mandarin Chinese Grammar and Essential Chinese Vocabulary: Rules and Scenarios.

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• Part I (Sentence Patterns)1. How to use because in Chinese2. Complex sentences3. Contrasts and Contradictions 4. Infinitive (to + verb) and "adjective + noun" as adjectives5. Information sequence6. The representations of it in Chinese7. Linking verbs and their Chinese counterparts8. Omission and replacement of nouns or pronouns9. The Chinese representations of English past tense and present perfect tense 10. English and Chinese prepositional phrases: word orders and grammatical features 11. Comparing the use of basic punctuation in English and Chinese 12. Conditional sentences, the Subjunctive mood and using ifPart II (Word Usages)1. Almost2. Already3. First4. Happy5. Live6. Must7. Once8. Only9. Or10. Since11. Some12. ThenPart III (Common Errors)Index

Wen-Hua Teng is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author of Yufa: A Practical Guide to Mandarin Chinese Grammar and Essential Chinese Vocabulary: Rules and Scenarios.

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• Part I (Sentence Patterns)1. How to use because in Chinese2. Complex sentences3. Contrasts and Contradictions 4. Infinitive (to + verb) and "adjective + noun" as adjectives5. Information sequence6. The representations of it in Chinese7. Linking verbs and their Chinese counterparts8. Omission and replacement of nouns or pronouns9. The Chinese representations of English past tense and present perfect tense 10. English and Chinese prepositional phrases: word orders and grammatical features 11. Comparing the use of basic punctuation in English and Chinese 12. Conditional sentences, the Subjunctive mood and using ifPart II (Word Usages)1. Almost2. Already3. First4. Happy5. Live6. Must7. Once8. Only9. Or10. Since11. Some12. ThenPart III (Common Errors)Index

Wen-Hua Teng is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author of Yufa: A Practical Guide to Mandarin Chinese Grammar and Essential Chinese Vocabulary: Rules and Scenarios.

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• Part I (Sentence Patterns)1. How to use because in Chinese2. Complex sentences3. Contrasts and Contradictions 4. Infinitive (to + verb) and "adjective + noun" as adjectives5. Information sequence6. The representations of it in Chinese7. Linking verbs and their Chinese counterparts8. Omission and replacement of nouns or pronouns9. The Chinese representations of English past tense and present perfect tense 10. English and Chinese prepositional phrases: word orders and grammatical features 11. Comparing the use of basic punctuation in English and Chinese 12. Conditional sentences, the Subjunctive mood and using ifPart II (Word Usages)1. Almost2. Already3. First4. Happy5. Live6. Must7. Once8. Only9. Or10. Since11. Some12. ThenPart III (Common Errors)Index