Intermediate Persian

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.

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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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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

• Unit 1: Indirect speech Unit 2: 'Self': emphatic, reflexive and possessive

usages of *khod

• Objective pronouns Unit 3: Definite and indefinite, singular and plural:

review and expansion

Vocative case Unit 4: Persian equivalents of English modal verbs

More on subjunctive Unit 5: More on conditionals * If, *unless; otherwise, *as if

• Unit 6: Causative form

Optative mood

Past participle as verb

Deleting a similar verb

Regulars on the march Unit 7: Impersonal forms Unit 8: Position of verbs in the sentence

Verbs of state

Putting on and taking off clothes

To want, to be able to, to know Unit 9: More on compound verbs

Ways to avoid passive Unit 10: Nouns, adjectives from verbs

Some prefixes and suffixes Unit 11: Exclamative form

More on adjectives/adverbs,

comparison of adjectives, * ezafe

• Unit 12: Correlative conjunctions

More on subordinate clauses

A review of *ta

• Unit 13: How to use digar, hanuz, ham, * faghat/tanha
• Unit 14: Remember/forget, arrange, change,

difference, meaning/'to mean' Appendix I: Language of politeness and courtesy Appendix II: Colloquial Persian/ Tehrani Appendix III: Literary, poetical, archaic Appendix IV: Good, bad and ugly Persian

Common mistakes

Key to Exercises.

Glossary

(includes all Persian simple verbs).

Index