HSK 2 Grammar Patterns

Add 得 after a verb, then an adjective, to describe how well or how an action is done.

Add 着 right after a verb to show an action or state is continuing.

Add 过 right after a verb to say you have done something before, as a past experience.

Use 要...了 to say something is about to happen very soon.

Use 就 to say something happens early or soon, and 才 to say something happens late or only under a condition.

Use 因为 to give a reason and 所以 to state its result, in the same sentence.

Use 虽然 to introduce a fact and 但是 to give a contrasting result, forming the full 虽然...但是... pattern.

Use 一边 before each of two verbs to say the same person does both actions at the same time.

Use 已经 before the verb and 了 at the end to say something has already happened by now.

Use 还 for something still happening now, 再 for doing something again in the future, and 又 for something that already happened again in the past.

Use 每 before a noun and 都 before the verb to say every single one does or is the same.

Use 从...到... to mark a start and end point in time or place, and 离 to say how far one place is from another.

Use 向 or 往 before a place to show which way an action is aimed; 向 can also mark a person as the target of a non-movement action, but 往 cannot.

Use 给 to mark the person who receives an action, who something is given or done to.

Use 对 before a person or thing to mark who or what an action, feeling, or quality is directed at.

Use 让 to say one person makes or allows another person to do something.

Use 别 before a verb to tell someone not to do something.

Use 次 to count how many times something happens, and 第一(次) to say the first time.

Review ten different grammar patterns from earlier chapters, one sentence per pattern.