Beginning Chinese Grammar Online

[aafrophone]

where do you think i could find a site that teaches beginning (to intermediate) Chinese grammar? Any good sites? I prefer 繁體字 but if its all about grammar than i guess i can deal with 簡體字.

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[self-taught-mba]

http://berlin.cls.yale.edu/chineseusagedictionary/

Lots of function words with their explaination

[roddy]

Haven't looked at it in detail, but that looks like a very useful site - detailed explanations of the difference between, ie, 又，再。 Don't think I've seen that one before.

[gato]

Don't think I've seen that one before.

See this, 老板：

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/8195-best-of-chinese-study-tools-studying-chinese-online-and-off#Grammar

[roddy]

Thought it might be in there, but wasn't about to check. You'll forgive me for not having memorized the entire database, I'm sure

[gato]

Ok, you are forgiven.

[Luobot]

Originally posted by self-taught-mba

http://berlin.cls.yale.edu/chineseusagedictionary/

Lots of function words with their explanation

Excellent site ... thanks for that!

I stumbled into a related Yale site, called: Mandarin Essential Grammar

It's more basic and has pinyin in addition to characters. They even include mp3 audio so that you can listen to example sentences and practice your pronunciation while your at it. It's always nice to hear the way it's supposed to sound. No registration required.

Major topics include:

- Measure Words For Nouns

- Change of State "le" 了

- Perfective –Le 了 Vs Particle Le 了

- ‘Shì ... de’ (是 ... 的) Construction

- Directional Complements

- The Complement Of Degree

- The Complement Of Result

- The Potential Complement

- Bǎ “把”Construction

It looks like a good place for a grammar beginner (such as myself) to start.

This is a good thread, and I hope others add more links to grammar resources, whether beginner or more advanced.