An Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic

SELECTED CONTENTS; Introduction; The Arabic Alphabet; Special Features of Pronunciation; Syllable Stress; 1. Present Tense of the Verb 'to be': Asking a question; 2. Gender in Nouns: Ordinal Numerals: Gender Agreement; Cardinal Numerals: 1 to 10; Independent or Subject Pronouns; 3. Case Endings - Indefinite Nouns; 4. Case Endings for Adjectives: Cardinal Numerals; 5. Use of Verbs: Use of the Accusative; 6. Pronoun Suffixes; 7. The Idaafah; 8. The Preposition; 9. Pronoun Suffixes, prepositions with - their Vowel and Spelling Changes, - Verbs with -; 10. The Verb 'to please'; The Verb 'not to be'; Perfect Tense of Five Hollow Verbs; 11. Verbs: The Imperfect Indicative; 12. Hollow Verbs: The Imperfect Indicative; 13. The Dual Endings of Nouns, Adjectives, and Pronouns; 14. The Dual of Verbs; 15. The Negative of the Imperfect Indicative; 16. The Plural of Nouns and Adjectives - The Sound Plural - Nisbah Adjectives - Masculine Sound Plural as first term of an Idaafah; 17. The Triliteral Root System of Arabic Words; 18. Subjunctive and Future Tenses: Assimilated Verbs; 19. The Jussive; 20. Interrogatives; 21. The Derived Forms of Arabic Verbs; 22. The Pluperfect and Past Imperfect; 23. Relative Clauses; 24. The Verbal Noun; 25. Defective Verbs; 26. The Indeterminate Relative Pronouns; 27. Demonstrative Pronouns; 28. Affirmative Imperative Forms of Verbs: Negative Imperative; 29. Hollow Verbs - Forms I to X; 30. Ordinal Numbers: Telling the Time; 31. Active Participles of Verbs: Impersonal Expressions with a Following Clause; 32. The Elative (Arabic Comparative and Superlative); 33. Phonetic Change in Nouns and Adjectives: Using the Cardinal Numbers; The Calendar in the Arab World; 34. The Passive Voice; 35. The Haal Clause; 36. Passive Participles; 37. Doubled Verbs: The Subjunctive: Summary of Uses; 38. Verbal Nouns: Accusative of Cause, Reason, or Purpose; Quadriliteral Vebs; 39. Jussive Indirect Commands; Reference Tables of Verbs; English-Arabic Vocabulary;

Gerald Groffman studied Russian and French at the University of Oxford and Arabic at the University of Exeter. He was Head of Oriental Languages at Marlborough College until his retirement in 2000. It was from Marlborough in 1983 that he initiated the Schools Arabic Project to promote the teaching of Arabic in British schools.