Contents Authors' preface to second edition Introduction Unit 0: A quick review of Basic Persian Unit 1: Indirect speech Unit 2: 'Self': emphatic, reflexive and possessive usages of khod Objective pronouns Unit 3: Definite and indefinite, singular and plural: review and expansion Vocative case Unit 4: Persian equivalents of English modal verbs More on subjunctive Unit 5: More on conditionals If , unless ; otherwise , as if Unit 6: Causative form Optative mood Past participle as verb Deleting a similar verb Regulars on the march Unit 7: Impersonal forms Unit 8: Position of verbs in the sentence Verbs of state Putting on and taking off clothes To want, to be able to, to know Unit 9: More on compound verbs Ways to avoid passive Unit 10: Nouns, adjectives from verbs Some prefixes and suffixes Unit 11: Exclamative form More on adjectives/adverbs, comparison of adjectives, ezÄfe Unit 12: Correlative conjunctions More on subordinate clauses A review of tÄ Unit 13: How to use digar , hanuz , ham , faghat/tanhÄ Unit 14: Remember/forget, arrange, change, difference, meaning/'to mean' Appendix I: Language of politeness and courtesy Appendix II: Colloquial Persian/ TehrÄni Appendix III: Literary, poetical, archaic Appendix IV: Good, bad and ugly Persian Common mistakes Key to Exercises. Glossary (includes all Persian simple verbs). Index.