- Greeting someone
- Thanking
- Attracting someone's attention
- Introducing yourself
- Saying sorry
- Offering something
- Saying goodbye
- Asking the price
- Asking about someone's experience(s)
- Saying you intend to do something
- Asking about the degree of something (price, etc.)
- Asking about time
- Asking about figures
- Asking about the way to do something
- Asking about someone's ability to do something
- Asking for the location of a place
- Asking about the characteristics of something
- Giving your opinion
- Expressing likes
- Saying what you like doing
- Stating a procedure
- Asking how someone is
- Setting conditions
- Comparing
- Suggesting
- Giving reasons
- Requesting
- Giving examples
- Reaching a compromise
- Asking for permission
- Saying someone is obliged to do something
- Saying someone must not do something
- Telling someone how to do something
- Telling someone not to do something
- Saying someone need not do something
- Inviting someone
- Advising someone
- Asking someone to do something
- Saying what you hope will happen
- Introducing someone