A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language

ISBN: 9780853315858 ISBN10: 085331585X.
Written by: John A Haywood.
Softcover, 687pp..
Qur'an selections, fables, stories, newspaper extracts, letters, and excerpts from classical and modern Arabic writings are used to teach grammar. The book contains 52 chapters with a vocabulary of over 4,000 words and will serve as a basis for study of the language and its literature. At the same time it will help form a good foundation for those who wish to concentrate on the modern written language of literature and the daily press. This is above all a practical grammar and is meant for the beginner who is not familiar with the peculiarities of the Semetic languages, nevertheless, it is comprehensive enough for most students' needs in the first two or three years of study.