A reference grammar of modern standard Arabic / Karin C. Ryding.

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Introduction to Arabic -- Modern Standard Arabic phonology and script -- Arabic word structure: an overview -- Basic Arabic sentence structures -- Arabic noun types -- Participles: active and passive -- Noun inflections: gender, humanness, number, definiteness, and case -- Construct phrases and nouns in apposition -- Noun specifiers and quantifiers -- Adjectives: form and function -- Adverbs and adverbial expressions -- Personal pronouns -- Demonstrative pronouns and their functions -- Relative pronouns and relative clauses -- Arabic numerals and numeral phrases -- Prepositions and prepositional phrases -- Questions and question words -- Connectives and conjunctions -- Subordinating conjunctions: the particle ´inna and her sisters -- The classes of Arabic verbs -- Verb inflection: a summary -- Form I the base form of the trilateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns and participles -- Form II trilateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles -- Form III trilateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles -- Form IV trilateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles -- Form V trilateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles -- Form VI trilateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles -- Form VII trilateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles -- Form VIII trilateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles -- Form IX trilateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles -- Form X trilateral verb: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles -- Forms XI-XV trilateral verb -- Quadrilateral verbs: verb types, verbal nouns, and participles -- Moods of the verb I: indicative and subjunctive -- Moods of the verb II: jussive and imperative -- Verbs of being, becoming, remaining, seeming -- Negation and exception -- Passive and passive-type expressions -- Conditional and opative expressions.