Book Details
Orange Code:33155
Paperback:250 pages
Publications:
Categories:
Sections:
1. The Alphabet2. The Alphabet (cont.). Case and Gender. Simple Sentences3. The Alphabet (cont.). Number4. The Alphabet (cont.). Writing Notes. Adjectives5. The Ezafe. Comparison of Adjectives. Hiatus6. Pronouns and Pronominal Adjectives7. The Verb: Simple Tenses. Verbal Sentences8. Adverbs. Prepositions. Conjunctions9. The Verb: Compound Tenses. Uses of Tenses. Compound Verbs10. Complex Sentences (Co-ordinate, Subordinate). Impersonal Verbs. Temporal Clauses11. Complex Sentences (cont.) (Relative Clauses)12. Complex Sentences (cont.) (Indefinite Relative. Other Conjunctions. Conditional Sentences)13. Numerals. Time. Age. Dates14. The Arabic Element in Persian
Description:
|
Mr Elwell-Sutton's book provides a simple grammatical framework for contemporary written Persian. It is based on the characteristic idiom and phraseology of the language as it is used in newspapers, magazines and novels. The student is introduced to Persian script from the first lesson. Words are fully vocalized in the early lessons, but vowels are progressively discarded; they are, however, shown in the vocabulary. The letter-forms of printed Persian are used cursive scripts. Although the structure of the language is Mr Elwell-Sutton's immediate concern, he has given close attention to the need for acquiring a workable vocabulary. The examples and exercises thus require only a limited vocabulary of words in fairly common use - about 1500 in all. The student is also given help with pronunciation; at the ends of lessons sample sentences from the exercises are printed with diacritics showing the intonation and stress of each syllable. At the end of the book there is a key to the lessons.
|
