HSK2Sentence patterns

Requests with 请 (qǐng)

An English guide to Requests with 请 (qǐng), with structures, examples, and practical usage notes.

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Overview

This English reference introduces “Requests with 请 (qǐng)” and focuses on the information most useful when reading Chinese.

subject + 请 + object + verb phrase

This section collects practical observations for recognizing the pattern in context.

Please sit down.

He asked me to help him.

Teacher Li treated me to dinner.

Little Zhang invited Little Li to his house.

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