CONTENTS 1
PART Ⅲ.—THE FORTY EXERCISES 1
Chinese Weights and Measures 213
PART Ⅳ.—THE TEN DIALOGUES 215
PART Ⅴ.—THE HUNDRED LESSONS 249
PART Ⅵ.—THE GRADUATE's WOOING,or THE STORY OF A PROMISE THAT WAS KEPT 351
PART Ⅶ.—THE TONE EXERCISES 419
Notes on the Tone Rules affecting the Finals 423
Exercises in the Tones 427
PART Ⅷ.—THE PARTS OF SPEECH:—Introductory Observations 481
The Noun and the Article 484
The Chinese Numerative Noun 486
Number,Singular and Plural 493
Case 495
Gender 497
The Adjective and its Degrees of Comparison 497
The Pronoun(Personal,Relative,Possessive,Demonstrative Distributive,Indefinite) 498
The Verb as modified by Mood,Tense,and Voice 504
The Adverb,of Time,Place,Number,Degree,etc 511
The Preposition 517
The Conjunction 518
The Interjection 518
ERRATA AND ADDENDA 521