Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises accessible grammar exercises in a single volume. Each of the fourteen units deals with a particular grammatical point, and provides associated exercises to help learners reinforce and consolidate their knowledge.
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.
| Authors' preface to the second edition |
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| Introduction |
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A quick review of Basic Persian |
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2 "Self": emphatic, reflexive and possessive usages of khod |
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3 Definite and indefinite, singular and plural: Review and expansion |
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4 Persian equivalents of English modal verbs |
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If, unless; otherwise, as if |
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8 The position of verbs in a sentence |
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Putting on and taking off clothes |
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To want, to be able to, to know |
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10 Nouns and adjectives, from verbs |
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Some prefixes and suffixes |
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More on adjectives/adverbs, comparison of adjectives |
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12 Correlative conjunctions |
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More on subordinate clauses |
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13 How to use digar, hanuz, ham, faghat/tanha |
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Arrange, change, difference |
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| Appendix I Language of politeness and courtesy |
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| Appendix II Colloquial Persian/Tehrani |
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| Appendix III Literary, poetical, archaic |
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| Appendix IV Good, bad and ugly Persian |
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| Common mistakes |
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| Key to the exercises |
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| Persian--English Glossary (includes all Persian simple verbs) |
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| Index |
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Saeed Yousef was a senior lecturer of Persian at the University of Chicago, USA, until 2020. He is also a poet and has published books of literary criticism and translations.
Hayedeh Torabi was a lecturer of Persian at the University of Chicago, USA. She is a published writer, essayist and translator.
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