Vietnamese: An Essential Grammar is a concise and user-friendly reference guide to modern Vietnamese. It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language in short, readable sections.

Binh Ngo is the Director of the Vietnamese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, USA.

Preface. Introduction. 1 Nouns, noun phrases and their components 2 Verbs, verb phrases and their components 3 Adjectives, adjective phrases and their components 4 Word-formation 5 Sentences 6 Problem words, phrases and constructions. Glossary of Grammatical Terms. Grammar Index. 7 Pronunciation. Glossary of Phonetic Terms