ABSTRACT
This chapter presents vocabulary and grammar sections and speech patterns in Mandarin Chinese language along with their English meanings. It explains nouns, time words, pronouns, stative verbs, adverbs, particles, and idiomatic expressions. Time words may sometimes function as nouns, sometimes as adverbs. As adverbs they must of course precede the verb but they can come before or after the subject. The position at the head of the sentence naturally accords the time word more prominence. When adjectives form the predicate, in case when they say what the subject is or is not, they function as verbs; there is no need of additional word for 'to be', these are stated as stative verbs. In the affirmative, when no more substantial adverb is to be supplied, they need to be supported by an unstressed adverb. In certain cases stative verbs may also be the subject of a sentence, in which they take on the role of a gerund.
