This book is a grammar in the truest sense of the word. It systematically and thoroughly treats parts of speech and parts of the sentence. It then moves on to cover special sentence patterns (a very helpful section), sentence types, time and aspects, and punctuation marks.A unique feature of this book is that it very much is, as the title implies, a Chinese grammar for English speakers. That is to say, the present work has been written to meet the particular needs of speakers of English.In fact, this book is distinguished by the way in which it constantly references English while yet keeping its eyes squarely on the task of explicating Chinese.The authors have been able to write such an unusual book because they are native speakers of Chinese with a strong background as highly proficient leamers of English who have long experience as teachers of Chinese. The result is the most complete and rigorous grammar of Mandarin Chinese for speakers of English that is available.