Practical Arabic Grammar, Upper and Lower

Author: Yu Zhangrong
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Features: The Arabic grammar content in this book is very rich, and the usage rules are relatively complex. It is both rigorous and meticulous, yet flexible and diverse, making it a challenging subject to master. While maintaining the characteristics of Arabic grammar, this book adheres to the principle of practicality and adopts a completely new system and format different from traditional Arabic grammar books. It summarizes, generalizes, elaborates, analyzes complex grammatical phenomena in concise and clear language, accompanied by standardized, vivid, and easy-to-understand example sentences, facilitating understanding, memorization, and mastery.
The book consists of two parts: basic Arabic grammar knowledge and common Arabic grammar tools (including conventional phrases and expressions). Most Arabic grammar books pay little attention to grammar tools. Through long-term Arabic language teaching practice, we have found that neglecting this aspect inevitably affects the effectiveness of Arabic language teaching. Therefore, in compiling this practical grammar book, we integrate basic grammar knowledge with grammar tools, making them complementary and presenting a complete and systematic concept of Arabic grammar.
The book systematically and comprehensively explains Arabic grammar knowledge and grammar tools, highlighting common, practical, and challenging grammatical phenomena. By providing numerous example sentences from various perspectives, it illustrates their specific usage, thoroughly exploring and researching their structure, meaning, characteristics, and grammatical analysis. Special attention is given to grammar tools with diverse collocations, rich content, and difficulty in grasping, aiming to provide reasonable and scientific explanations to aid understanding and usage. Additionally, the book conducts comparative studies on synonymous and near-synonymous Arabic grammar tools and idiomatic expressions.
Considering the Quran as a model of the Arabic language, some examples from it are appropriately included as illustrations. Other examples are collected from various Arabic grammar books and literary works. Due to the evolution of language, linguistic phenomena in newspapers and some written works often deviate from the rules in grammar books. For practical purposes and to draw attention to these phenomena among language learners and researchers, we have also collected such examples for reference. We believe these will be beneficial for Arabic language teaching, research, and translation.
Therefore, this book can serve as a textbook for undergraduate university students, a reference tool for self-learners with a basic level of Arabic proficiency, and a reference book for postgraduate students as well as educators, researchers, and translators in teaching, research, and translation work.