Intermediate Persian - A Grammar and Workbook

Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises accessible grammar exercises in a single volume. Each of the 14 units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises to help learners reinforce and consolidate their knowledge. In addition, it features four appendices, covering colloquial, polite, literary and journalistic styles. Intermediate Persian reviews the principles presented in Basic Persian and introduces more-advanced features and structures of the language. User-friendly and engaging, Intermediate Persian is suitable for both class use and independent study. This edition is completely revised with additional features, such as a review chapter and translations of all the examples.

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Contents

Authors' preface to second edition

Introduction

Unit 0:

A quick review of Basic Persian

Indirect speech

'Self': emphatic, reflexive and possessive

usages of khod

Objective pronouns

Definite and indefinite, singular and plural:

review and expansion

Vocative case

Persian equivalents of English modal verbs

More on subjunctive

More on conditionals

If, unless; otherwise, as if

Causative form

Optative mood

Past participle as verb

Deleting a similar verb

Regulars on the march

Impersonal forms

Position of verbs in the sentence

Verbs of state

Putting on and taking off clothes

To want, to be able to, to know

More on compound verbs

Ways to avoid passive

Nouns, adjectives from verbs

Some prefixes and suffixes

Exclamative form

More on adjectives/adverbs,

comparison of adjectives,

Correlative conjunctions

More on subordinate clauses

A review of ta

How to use digar, hanuz, ham,

Remember/forget, arrange, change,

difference, meaning/'to mean'

Language of politeness and courtesy

Colloquial Persian/ Tehrani

Literary, poetical, archaic

Good, bad and ugly Persian

Common mistakes