When Sentences Get LongerDay 11 / 7 18 min 7 questions · 80% to pass

Three rules that decide every connective

Subject, tense, and what is allowed to come after — learn these once

Test any connective against the three constraints instead of memorising its meaning.
Explained in English

You can already say what happened. This week is about saying it in one sentence instead of three.

That sounds like vocabulary — learn a list of connectives, pick the one that means because or but. It is not. Korean connectives carry grammatical constraints that English conjunctions do not have, and those constraints are what actually break learners.

1 · The three constraints

ConstraintThe questionExample of a connective that fails it
SubjectMust the two clauses share a subject?-느라고 requires the same subject
TenseCan I put -었- before it?-아/어서 refuses it
What followsCan a command or suggestion come after?-아/어서 refuses those too
What to ask of any connective
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