INTRODUCTION PART ONE APPROACHING ENGLISH SYNTAX Chapter I Syntax and Syntactic Units Chapter II The Sentence: An Overview Chapter III Intonation and the Meaning of a Sentence PART TWO ACQUIRING ENGLISH SYNTAX Chapter IV The Subject Chapter V The Predicate Chapter VI The Object and Its Complements Chapter VII Subject Complements and Link Verbs Chapter VIII Adverbial Modifiers PART THREE ASSIMILATING ENGLISH SYNTAX Chapter IX Sentence Embeddings Chapter X Sentence Patterns Chapter XI Sentence Transformation Chapter XII Sentence Rhetoric PART FOUR APPLYING ENGLISH SYNTAX Chapter XIII Syntax in Translation Chapter XIV Syntax Applied to the Translation of Minor Sentences Chapter XV Syntax Applied to the Translation of Major Sentences Chapter XVI A Chinese-English Translation Workshop on the Syntactic Approach Chapter XVII Essentials of Chinese-English Translation Practice Summarized CONCLUSION