Effortless Chinese Grammar—An Outline of Chinese Grammar for Foreign Students is grammar book providing reference for international students and teachers of Chinese as a foreign language. This is the workbook for it. Corresponding to the textbook, it is divided into the following chapters, namely classification of words, sentence elements, sentence types, special sentence patterns and compound sentences, each of which consists of abundant exercises, including “Fill in the blanks”, “Choose the right answers”, “True or false”, “Complete the sentences” and “Correct the errors”, etc. Reference answers are provided at the end of the book. As a collection of grammar exercises on TCFL, this book provides important reference for the learning and testing of Chinese grammar for foreign students.

Wu Ying, a PhD majoring in Linguistics, is the Associate Professor and the Supervisor of master candidates at the International College of Chinese Studies, Shanghai Normal University. Dr. Wu’s research areas include the theories of Chinese grammar and the studies of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. In recent years, she was in charge of projects, such as the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Project of the Ministry of Education and the Key Scientific Research Projects of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, etc. Dr. Wu has published more than 20 papers on periodicals, such as Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, Applied Linguistics and Learning Chinese. She was also the chief editor of many textbooks.