You may encounter the following sentences when learning Chinese:
☆ Sam比过去胖了不少。
Has Sam become fatter or thinner?
☆ 手表不是Jane的就是Miranda的。
Is the watch Miranda's?
☆ Tom对我总是爱理不理的。
What is Tom's attitude towards me?

If you can answer these three questions correctly, congratulations! You have the ability to communicate with Chinese people. However, if you read or heard these sentences and didn't understand their meaning, then this book is the one for you!

There are a large number of grammatical phenomena in the Chinese language, where some words are always used together with others, forming set structures, or compounds, which have specific meanings. In this book, 330 such set structures are introduced and explained in detail. Each structure is accompanied by multiple example sentences to facilitate your understanding, and increase your ability to use the structure accurately.