“Series of Teaching Foreigners Chinese Grammar” is the achievement of “Research and Development of Grammar Syllabus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and Teaching Reference Grammar Series (Multi-volume)”, a major project of National Social Science Fund of China presided over by Professor Qi Huyang, which has been selected as the “2022 Founding Project of National Publication Foundation”. As an important reference book for international Chinese language education, it aims to build and improve the “Grammar System of Chinese Teaching” for foreign students to meet the development needs of the new era. It mainly serves the front line Chinese teachers, researchers, graduate students and undergraduates majoring in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. This series consists of 39 volumes, including 4 outline series, 26 book series, 8 summary series, and 1 collection of essays.

This book is a fascicle of this series.

This book studies the pivotal phrases and pivotal sentences which are relatively special in Chinese. Pivotal phrases and pivotal sentences are used very frequently, with complex structures, diverse semantics and rich pragmatic functions, which are inevitable grammatical difficulties in second language teaching. On the basis of previous studies, this book comprehensively compiles and analyzes pivotal phrases and pivotal sentences. This book, theoretically, explores the nature, characteristics and types, applicatively, counts the frequency of use and distribution characteristics, and, pedagogically, analyzes the learning patterns and teaching difficulties and puts forward targeted teaching suggestions. This book aims to help front line Chinese language teachers and learners of Chinese as a second language to solve all kinds of problems encountered in the process of teaching and learning.