In the process of practicing reading skills, the students may often see the exercises that demand the students to complete the sentences or dialogues with the given words when studying in Mandarin learning courses. For example, the blank in the following dialogue should be filled with the given word 好with the fourth tone, A:听说老王心脏出问题住院了. B :是啊，（ ），每次都喝得大醉. First of all, the word 好reads the fourth tone means to love something and even addicted to doing something. According to the context, Wang always get drunk so that there is something wrong with the heart. Therefore, the blank should be filled with the sentence like 他好喝酒, indicating he is addicted to drinking.

Another important grammar point is 有…之说, meaning to have the saying of something. To answer the question 在你们国家，关于时间有什么说法which means to ask which kind of saying about the time, we can say 在我们国家，关于时间有一寸光阴一寸金之说, meaning we have the saying of一寸光阴一寸金 in our country about time.

Teachers in Chinese language school may also tell you the word 依然is also important to learn which has the meaning of still in English. If you want to describe that something still remains the same, you can use 依然like 老人走失了，家人登了寻人启事又请了警察，一个星期过去了，依然还没有消息.

If you see the sentence with the structure 待到…之时, you should know it implies something will be done when it comes to certain time. You can say 待到她把签证办好之时，他就可以出国留学了. When we use this structure we usually mean that something has been prepared for a long time but is not realized because some certain conditions are not qualified. Therefore, we have nothing to do but wait for the realization of certain conditions.