Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Exposition of the Construction and Idioms of Chinese Sentences, as Found in Colloquial Mandarin: For the Use of Learners of the Language
The following little volume is the result of the author's studies of the idioms and construction of Chinese colloquial. It is of course crude, imperfect and unfinished, as every first attempt almost necessarily in. Friendly criticism is invited.
The author had not studied Chinese long before he felt convinced that there was a far better method of acquiring a speaking knowledge of it than by learning every sentence by rote de nova. Having acquired the words and their use, there must be some general principles by which they are construed into sentences.
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