本书面向全世界对中国感兴趣或来中国观光的外国人。读者可以是汉语水平为“零”或具有初级汉语水平的自学者，但他们都以英语为母语或第二语言。
一种语言的“实际句子”是无限的，而“句子模式”是有限的。句法上的句子模式叫做“句型”，以“主语、谓语、宾语、状语、补语”的句子成分来展示。“句型”种类太少而不到10个。本书采用语义上的100种句子模式，叫做“句式”，以“时间、地点、起点、终点”的语义类别(义类)来展示。(详见后面的“句式中的义类”)。
本书提供：①英汉对照的“句式框架”，②英汉对照的“分类词语”，③英汉对照的“语法注解”，④英汉对照的“情景对话”。也就是“句式框架、填充词语、语法要点、情景交际”的四结合。本书按“情景”分为十大部分。每个部分包括十个“句式框架”，共计“一百个适应情景的句式框架”(详见后面“句式的目录”)。
Learn Chinese Through 100 Sentence Frames is for English speakers in the global community who are interested in China and are going to come to visit China.
This book is organized into ten different topic areas that readers will frequently find themselves in while traveling and living in China. Each topic area includes ten practical sentence frames. A total of 100 situational sentence frames are provided in this book. In addition to the sentence frames, other related useful vocabulary are also provided. For each situation the readers can conveniently substitute related vocabulary into the sentence frame, making new sentences for their individual needs.
