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.

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

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.