This accessible grammar provides a concise and user-friendly guide to the structure of Modern Standard Arabic. Using familiar terminology and keeping theory to a minimum, it is suitable for beginning students as well as those at a more advanced level. Detailed descriptions of all types of sentence are given, and numerous tables provide a clear presentation of verbs and nouns. The most familiar grammatical terms are given in Arabic as well as in English in order to help the student identify them, and the index is also presented in both languages for fast and straightforward cross referencing. Each pattern or rule described is illustrated with authentic examples from a range of real-life contexts such as newspapers, magazines, business communication and the Internet, as well as from Arabic literary texts. Clearly organised and practical, this book will be an invaluable reference resource for all learners and teachers of Modern Standard Arabic.
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'The author has accomplished the noble goal of user-friendliness, while simultaneously presenting numerous intricate, interwoven details, and this, in and of itself, makes it an ideal text for a course in the structure of MSA.' WORD
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This accessible grammar provides a concise and user-friendly guide to the structure of Modern Standard Arabic. Using familiar terminology and keeping theory to a minimum, each pattern or rule is illustrated with examples from a range of real-life contexts. An invaluable resource for all learners and teachers of the language.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you're interested in getting to grips with Arabic grammar this is your book. It's all here. Don't waste your time with other books that are a.) more expensive and more confusing or b.) simplistic and frustratingly incomplete.
This book does look like a sea of tables/charts but if you spend a little time figuring them out and memorizing relevant facts it will enormously help your language.
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This book does look like a sea of tables/charts but if you spend a little time figuring them out and memorizing relevant facts it will enormously help your language.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Shahi
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This is probably the best Arabic Grammar reference book in the English language. I have bought almost every single Arabic Grammar book available in the English language and in my opinion this is the best. It is very clear, concise and straight to the point. It is better organised than Haywood and often uses clearer and relevant examples.
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I must have missed something the other reviewers didn't because this book is, in my opinion, definitely NOT a student guide, and it is definitely NOT user-friendly. I'm sorry but a sentence like "active and passive participles are frequently used in Arabic language for expressing so-called shortened relative clauses by taking a subject or an object while being employed as attributive adjuncts related to nouns" is NOT an "accessible grammar [that] provides a concise and user-friendly guide... using familiar terminology and keeping theory to a minimum." What a joke. And believe me this was one of the more sensible sentences. I've studied linguistics at postgraduate level and even I was confused by some of the terminology, so the average person who in good faith buys this book is going to be completely put off before he or she even begins. There's no excuse for this in this day and age. Just because Arabic hasn't been taught traditionally in Europe doesn't mean you should approach it in any way differently from the way French or German grammar is presented. 80% of the book is all about derivation of words, i.e. the formation of new words - now this is great and interesting and a very traditional part of Arabic linguistics but a beginner doesn't need to know it! Especially since, as this book admits, the verbs of different "forms" have been lexicalised anyway! Just learn them as individual words. It's like learning the rule for forming words like "informative" and "information" from "inform" before you even learn anything else in English! Just because traditional Arabic grammar does this does not mean to say it's the best way of presenting it to a student. Now, the level of detail is great and I'm sure Arab linguists will find this book very useful - but my big gripe is DON'T then try to mis-sell it as a "student grammar" or an "accessible guide". Because it isn't.
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