INTRODUCTION PART ONE APPROACHING ENGLISH SYNTAX Chapter 1 Syntax and Syntactic Units Chapter 2 The Sentence：An Overview Chapter 3 Intonation and the Meaning of a Sentence PART TWO ACQUIRING ENGLISH SYNTAX Chapter 4 The Subject Chapter 5 The Predicate Chapter 6 The Object and Its Complements Chapter 7 Subject Complements and Link Verbs Chapter 8 Adverbial Modifiers PART THREE ASSIMILATING ENGLISH SYNTAX Chapter 9 Sentence Embeddings Chapter 10 Sentence Patterns Chapter 11 Sentence Transformation Chapter 12 Sentence Rhetoric PART FOUR APPLYING ENGLISH SYNTAX Chapter 13 Syntax in Translation Chapter 14 Syntax Applied to the Translation of Minor Sentences Chapter 15 Syntax Applied to the Translation of Major Sentences Chapter 16 A Chinese—English Translation Workshop on the Syntactic Approach Chapter 17 Essentials of Chinese—English Translation Practice Summarized CONCLUSION
