You may have learned that 了 (le) follows immediately after a verb to indicate completion (AKA 了1), and comes at the end of a sentence when it indicates a "change of state" (AKA 了2). But 了1 also frequently follows not the verb, but the object after the verb. What are the rules for this? When is it natural and when is it not? That's what this grammar point is about: bringing a bit more depth to your understanding of expressing completion with "le".
Structure
Subj. + Verb + 了 + Obj.
Subj. + Verb + Obj. + 了
Keywords
了
Used for
Expressing completion · Describing actions · Referring to the past
Summary, structure, classification, and adapted sentence examples draw from the AllSet Learning Chinese Grammar Wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0; changes were made. This noncommercial reference is based on an October 2023 snapshot.