对外汉语教学宜采用“句型为体,字词为翼”的语法体系。本文论述“句型为体”的依据和特点:表里合璧,繁简相宜,涵盖面大,具有活性,便于深化细化、量化等级化,实用性强。文章还分析了句型划分标准、句型成分和句型重点等问题 Teaching Chinese as a foreign language should adopt the grammar system of “sentence type as the body and word as the wing”. This article discusses the basis and characteristics of “sentence pattern as a body”: the combination of the inside and the outside, the simple and easy to use, the large coverage, the activity, the ease of deepening and refinement, the quantification and ranking, and the practicability. The article also analyzes the sentence pattern classification criteria, sentence patterns and sentence structure and other issues