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BL
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729976
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b549732
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| Main Entry
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Clive Holes.
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| Title & Author
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Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf\ Clive Holes.
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| Edition Statement
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Second edition
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| Publication Statement
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London: Routledge, 2015
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1 volume : illustrations
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| ISBN
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1138958123
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: 9781138958128
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| Notes
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This edition originally published: 2009.
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| Contents
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Introduction: How To Use This Book Pronunciation Guide Unit 1 Expressions of Quantity; Orders and Requests; `Please','Thank you', `Be so Kind' Unit 2 The Arabic Equivalent of `The'; The `Dual'; The Plural Unit 3 `How Much/Many?' Prices; Numbers 1-10; Greetings Unit 4 Simple Descriptive Sentences; Noun-adjective Phrases; Some Other Types of Adjective Unit 5 Numbers 11 to 1,000,000; Age; Telling the Time; Personal Pronouns; `Who?' and `What?' Unit 6 Expressions of Place; The Verb: Past Tense. Unit 7 Past-tense Verbs: Verbs Beginning with a Glottal Stop; Past-tense Verbs: `Hollow' Verbs; `To Say That'; `To Ask Whether'; Li'ann: `Because'; Expressions of Manner; Further Expressions of Time Unit 8 Noun-phrases; The Elative Adjective; Word Order Unit 9 Past-tense Verbs: `Doubled' Verbs; Past-tense Verbs: `Weak' Verbs; Time Conjunctions; Ordinal Numbers; Months Unit 10 Relative Clauses; Demonstrative Pronouns; Demonstrative Adjectives; The Negative in Equational Sentences; `Somebody' and `Nobody' Unit 11 The Imperfect Verb: Basic Forms; The Imperfect Verb: Different Stem-types; Review of Verb Forms; The Uses of the Imperfect Unit 12 Verb Strings; The Imperative: Strong Verbs; The Imperative: Other Types of Verb; The Negative Imperative Unit 13 The Active Participle; The Passive Participle Unit 14 The Derived Themes of the Verb (I) Unit 15 The Verbal Noun; Co-ordinated Negatives; Compound Adjectives; `Self' Unit 16 The Derived Themes of the Verb (II); Conditional Sentences Unit 17 Quadriliteral Verbs; `To Wish/Want' and `To Prefer'; Verbs with Double Objects Unit 18 Diminutives; Uses of abu and umm; `How Big!' etc.; `So-and-so'; Forms of Personal Address; Exhortations Unit 19 Verb Strings Involving kaan/yikuun; More Conjunctions; `As if'; Expressions Meaning `I think'; `Some' and `Each Other'; Adverbs in -an Unit 20 Texts Answer-Key Appendices 1. Variations in Pronunciation 2. The Arabic Script Glossaries Gulf Arabic-English English-Gulf Arabic
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| Subject
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Arabic language -- Dialects -- Persian Gulf Region.
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Arabic language -- Spoken Arabic.
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Arabic language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English.
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| LC Classification
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PJ6853.C558 2015
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| Added Entry
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Clive Holes
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| Parallel Title
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Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia;Arabic of the Gulf
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