- The existence and appearance of people and things: existential sentences
- Expressing change: “越来越……” and “越……越……”
- The 把 sentence (1): 把 + object + verb + 在/到/给/成
- The 把 sentence (2): requirements for use, negation
- Passive meaning: the 被 sentence
- A few small points: reduplicated nouns, 还, 才, 又, 你说……, 可 + verb, ……好了
- Potential complement (1): V + 得/不 + resultative / directional complement
- Potential complement: V + 得/不 + 了(liǎo), V + 得/不 + 下; comparison with 能/可以
- Potential complement (2): 动, 好, 住 and comparison with the complement of state
- Conditional complex sentences: 只要……就…… and 只有……才……
- Expressing the result of an action: extended meanings of directional complements (起来, 出来, 下去, 下来)
- Flexible uses of interrogative pronouns (1): any and indefinite reference
- Flexible uses of interrogative pronouns (2): specific reference (two corresponding interrogative pronouns)
- Order and simultaneity of actions: 一边……一边……; 先……再(又)……然后……最后……
- The parenthetical phrase “看样子” and the comparison “像……一样”
- Complex sentences without connectors (hypothesis, cause and effect) and common pairs of connectors
- Descriptive complement (2): V + 得 + verb phrase
- Rhetorical questions
- Emphatic expressions: 连……也/都…… and the double negative