從…到… — across place, time, or range.

grammar → 從…到…

TSUMUGU · TBCL 2 (est.) · 語法

從…到… grammar point · tier 2 · 從…到… span from a start point to an end point

Marks a span: 從 sets where it starts, 到 sets where it ends — across place, time, or range.

Hook inherited from 從…到….

Marks a span

框 · Frame

從 [start point] 到 [end point]

觸 · Trigger

You want to mark both ends of a stretch — where it starts and where it stops.

序 · The move

1Put the start point after 從.Is this where the span begins?

2Put the end point after 到.Is this where the span stops?

3State the verb or measure after the frame.Does it describe the whole stretch, not just one end?

例 · Examples

1從from (start point)臺北Taipei到to (end point)南投Nantou開車drive要takes / needs三個半小時three and a half hours。

Driving from Taipei to Nantou takes three and a half hours.

界 · Boundary

從 alone

從 alone names only the departure point and leaves the rest open; 從…到… closes both ends and fixes a finite span.

到 alone

到 alone names only the arrival point; the frame adds 從 so the start is fixed too.

向

向 orients an action at a target without measuring distance; 從…到… is the measured stretch between two points.

✗ 到臺北從南投 → ✓ 從臺北到南投 (從 takes the start, 到 takes the end — the order is fixed)

✗ 從臺北南投 → ✓ 從臺北到南投 (drop 到 and the end point floats unmarked)

✗ 從九點到 → ✓ 從九點到五點 (到 needs its end point to close the span)

English from … to … maps one-to-one, so learners reach for it readily; the trap is dropping 到 (treating 從 as enough, as 'from' can stand alone in English).