Introduction Unit 1: The Alphabet. Unit 2: Nouns and Adjectives. Singular and Plural. The Connector Ezafe. Unit 3: Numbers. Demonstrative Adjectives and Demonstrative Pronouns. Unit 4: Pronouns. Present Tense: To Be and To Have. Unit 5: Simple Present Tense: Other Verbs. Present Progressive with dashtan. Unit 6: Definite and Indefinite (1). Attributive -i Suffix. Unit 7: Transitive and Intransitive. Direct and Indirect Objects. Definite and Indefinite (2): ra. Compound Verbs. Unit 8: Comparison of Adjectives. Adjectives As Nouns. Question Words. Telling the Time. Some Distributives / Quantifiers. Double Negative. Unit 9: Imperative. Unit 10: Infinitive - Its Uses. Past and Present Stems. Unit 11: Future Tense. Unit 12: Simple Past Tense. Past Progressive Tense. Unit 13: Past Participle. Perfect Tenses. Unit 14: Simple (or Prersent) Subjunctive. Unit 15: Perfect (or Past) Subjunctive (I). Unit 16: Conditionals and Wishes. Unit 17: From Prepositions to Conjunctions. Unit 18: Tense in Complex Sentences: Time Clauses. Unit 19: Relative Clauses. Unit 20: Passive. Key to Exercises. Glossary.

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