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| Part I. Grammar | Page 1–46 | |
| Orthography | 1 | |
| Tones | 4 | |
| Description of the tones | 5 | |
| Diagrams of the tones | 6 | |
| Tones in combination (see also 192) | 8 | |
| Importance of the tones | 10 | |
| Tables of Initials and Finals (No 1—3.) | 10 | |
| Parts of Speech | 16 | |
| 1. | Article | 17 |
| 2. | Noun | 17 |
| Proper nouns or names, Patronymics or surnames | 17 | |
| Common, collective, and compound nouns | 18 | |
| Properties of nouns | 19 | |
| Person, Gender ----- 19. Number ----- 20. Case | 21 | |
| Classifiers or Numeratives (see also 158) | 22 | |
| 3. | Pronouns | 24 |
| Personal pronouns ---- 24 Compound personal pronouns | 26 | |
| Interrogative pronouns | 26 | |
| Relative, compound relative, and demonstrative, pronouns | 27 | |
| 4. | Adjectives | 28 |
| Degrees of adjectives | 29 | |
| Numeral adjectives, Ordinal numbers (see also 152—154) | 31 | |
| 5. | Verbs | 32 |
| Moods | 32 | |
| Participles | 33 | |
| Tenses | 34 | |
| Passive voice | 35 | |
| Reduplicated verbs | 36 | |
| 6. | Adverbs | 37 |
| 7. | Prepositions | 38 |
| 8. | Conjunctions | 39 |
| 9. | Interjections | 39 |
| Supplement | 41 | |
| 1. | Final particles or Enclitic words | 41 |
| 2. | Interrogative particles and forms | 43 |
| 3. | Colloquial prefixes | 45 |
| 4. | Colloquial euphonic prefixes | 45 |
| Same words used as different parts of speech | 46 | |
| Part II. Phrases | Page 47–100 | |
| 1. | Discrimination in uses of words | 48 |
| 2. | Literal Translations | 49 |
| 3. | The noun Tai or Tai kié , Business |
50 |
| 4. | The nouns  Hwi, Fire, and Ch'a, Wood |
50 |