Intermediate Grammar Clinic HSK 3-4 Required 10 words

Cause and Condition Connectors

Link reasons, results, conditions, and contrasts without muddying the logic.

Goal

Learners can choose 因为/所以, 如果/就, and 虽然/但是 by relationship.

Make three new sentences with this module’s grammar pattern and support words.

grammar clinic pattern practice support vocabulary

因为生病，所以他没来。

Yīnwèi shēngbìng, suǒyǐ tā méi lái.

Because he was sick, he did not come.

如果有空，就来帮忙。

Rúguǒ yǒu kòng, jiù lái bāngmáng.

If you are free, come help.

Build clear cause-and-effect sentences for explanations and excuses.

因为这件事，她很不高兴。

She was very unhappy because of this.

Being sick is the cause, not a goal.

虽然这次比赛我们输了，但是因为大家都尽了力，所以没有人觉得难过。

Although we lost the match this time, nobody felt sad, because everyone had done their best. (Outer layer: contrast. Inside the second half: cause.)

Which relation is still unfinished inside the second half?

如果你有空，就来我家。

If you are free, come to my home.

This word introduces the condition.

要拿就拿个第一，第二名有什么意思？

If we’re going to win something, let’s win first place. What fun is second?

Which adverb links “if we do it” to “how we do it”?

因为

yīn wèi

Meanings

because owing to

Word	Pinyin	Meaning	Level	Dictionary
因为	yīn wèi	because	HSK 2.0 2 HSK 3.0 2	Dictionary
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore	HSK 2.0 2 HSK 3.0 2	Dictionary
如果	rú guǒ	if	HSK 2.0 3 HSK 3.0 3	Dictionary
就	jiù	(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then	HSK 2.0 2 HSK 3.0 2	Dictionary
虽然	suī rán	although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[kě shì] or 但是[dàn shì] etc)	HSK 2.0 3 HSK 3.0 2	Dictionary
但是	dàn shì	but; however	HSK 2.0 2 HSK 3.0 2	Dictionary
迟到	chí dào	to arrive late	HSK 2.0 3 HSK 3.0 3	Dictionary
生病	shēng bìng	to fall ill	HSK 2.0 2 HSK 3.0 1	Dictionary
有空	yǒu kòng	to have time (to do sth)	HSK 2.0 1 HSK 3.0 1	Dictionary
帮忙	bāng máng	to help	HSK 2.0 3 HSK 3.0 2	Dictionary