INTRODUCTION
PART ONE APPROACHING ENGLISH SYNTAX
Chapter I Syntax and Syntactic Units
Chapter II The Sentence: An Overview
Chapter III Intonation and the Meaning of a Sentence
PART TWO ACQUIRING ENGLISH SYNTAX
Chapter IV The Subject
Chapter V The Predicate
Chapter VI The Object and Its Complements
Chapter VII Subject Complements and Link Verbs
Chapter VIII Adverbial Modifiers
PART THREE ASSIMILATING ENGLISH SYNTAX
Chapter IX Sentence Embeddings
Chapter X Sentence Patterns
Chapter XI Sentence Transformation
Chapter XII Sentence Rhetoric
PART FOUR APPLYING ENGLISH SYNTAX
Chapter XIII Syntax in Translation
Chapter XIV Syntax Applied to the Translation of Minor Sentences
Chapter XV Syntax Applied to the Translation of Major Sentences
Chapter XVI A Chinese-English Translation Workshop on the Syntactic Approach
Chapter XVII Essentials of Chinese-English Translation Practice Summarized
CONCLUSION