count_zero Posted February 18, 2006 at 03:26 AM Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 at 03:26 AM Hi, Does anyone know of a webpage which has a list of English grammatical terms in Chinese? I am especially interested in tenses. I think past tense is 过去式 but I have no idea about past continuous, past perfect etc. I have tried using kingsoft to look up the words and it... kind of works but if you try that you might not be 100% satisfied either and a nice well-ordered page to print out would be fantastic. Ta! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gougou Posted February 18, 2006 at 03:37 AM Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 at 03:37 AM Some googling yielded this word document. It's six pages in total, and unless you need to know terms more complex than "adverbial clause of unreal condition" should get the job done... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrianlondon Posted February 18, 2006 at 09:43 AM Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 at 09:43 AM adverbial clause of unreal condition Is there a dictionary which converts that from English to a language I can understand? :-) Maybe one of the reasons I'm not good at learning foreign languages is that I don't really know all these terms. Once it gets past "verb" "noun" "adjective" I start getting confused. Not that it really matters at a basic level. I'm using the Practical Chinese Reader which tries, for example, to explain the differences between 得and 地 using all sorts of fancy words, but I simply got it by reading many examples of each in use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtrueman Posted February 18, 2006 at 05:11 PM Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 at 05:11 PM Another online resource/reference for your perusal: - http://www.sinoling.com/yufashuyu_en.htm This list of grammatical terms does not yet contain verb tenses. I will try to update it in the near future. =) Matt Trueman Author, Sinoling.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yingguoguy Posted February 18, 2006 at 05:14 PM Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 at 05:14 PM Adrian, I wouldn't worry, the grammatical explanations in Practical Chinese Reader are so defficient that Hung-nin Samuel Cheung of the University of California had to write his own "Practical Chinese Grammar" to supplement it for his own courses. It's a bit pricy, but I heartily recomment it, especially if you're using PCR as its written to follow the same order of grammar and its examples only use the vocab that's been introduced in the previous chapters of PRC. The problem with Chinese grammar is that it's supposedly so simple that most textbooks don't bother to explain it properly. Hmm, at the risk of showing off and getting it horribly wrong I think an adverbial clause of unreal condition is the underlined bit of "If I had studied harder I'd be able to speak Chinese by now" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
count_zero Posted February 21, 2006 at 02:15 AM Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 at 02:15 AM Gougou, That link is just not working for me, I’m afraid. Mtrueman, That’s some good work there. I was mainly after verb tenses though. When you’ve added those could you post a reply to tell us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted February 21, 2006 at 03:03 AM Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 at 03:03 AM Managed to get the file downloaded, very slow though. Attached. Grammar Terms.doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gougou Posted February 21, 2006 at 03:22 AM Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 at 03:22 AM Managed to get the file downloaded, very slow though.Strange, I just tried again, had a download speed of close to 20kbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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