A rare textbook on Shanghai dialect by Reverend F. L. H. Pott, an American missionary and educator who lived in China for more than 50 years. - Summary by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
Chapters (43)
1DESCRIPTION OF THE SHANGHAI ROMANIZED SYSTEM
1507
2LESSON I The Classifier
431
3LESSON II Demonstrative, and Personal Pronouns
596
4LESSON III The Numerals up to one Hundred
589
5LESSON IV Adjectives
725
6LESSON V Interrogatives, and Negatives
1281
7LESSON VI Some Remarks on the Verb
1178
8LESSON VII Prepositions and Postpositions, and Common Connectives
1002
9LESSON VIII Potential and Subjunctive Moods, and some Interrogative Adverbs
1105
10LESSON IX The Use of Dzak, Reduplication of Verbs, Reflexive Pronouns
1127
11LESSON X Divisions of Time. More Adverbs
1214
12LESSON XI The Passive Voice, and Adverbs of Place and Time
1105
13LESSON XII Some Verbal Idioms
1266
14LESSON XIII Auxiliary Verbs
1352
15LESSON XIV Causality, and Necessity
1087
16LESSON XV Further Remarks on Numerals, the Relative Pronoun
1069
17LESSON XVI Verbal Idioms
1329
18LESSON XVII More Verbal Idioms
1260
19LESSON XVIII More Verbal Idioms
1001
20LESSON XIX Asking Questions, Expecting Negative and Affirmative Answers
1131
21LESSON XX More Verbal Idioms
1511
22LESSON XXI Verbal Idioms, Ordinals, and Remarks on the Expression of Time
1013
23LESSON XXII On Comparison
934
24LESSON XXIII The Points of the Compass
1265
25LESSON XXIV Some Remarks on Gender
1153
26LESSON XXV Weights and Measures
1227
27LESSON XXVI Family Relations
1577
28LESSON XXVII Compound Verbs
1598
29LESSON XXVIII Abstract Nouns formed from two Adjectives of opposite meaning
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