Core 200 Review: Patterns That Unlock Reading
Finish the core path by reviewing the grammar and reading habits that unlock most N3-level text.
High-value pattern review
By this point, the goal is not to collect more isolated grammar. It is to recognize patterns quickly in real reading. High-value patterns include discourse markers, nominalization, relative clauses, reported speech, register shifts, and timing expressions like ところ.
彼が来ないということは、会議は延期かもしれない。
The fact that he is not coming may mean the meeting will be postponed.
A nominalized chunk plus かもしれない rewards structure-first reading.
連絡しようとしたところ、相手から電話が来た。
Just as I was about to contact them, they called me.
Spot the about-to pattern first, then the interrupting event.
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