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Advanced Grammar Clinic HSK 5 Required 12 words

Advanced Complements

Practice advanced Chinese grammar patterns with a tight support-word list and targeted cloze demos.

Goal

Learners can recognize the linked grammar pattern, choose its key words, and write two original examples.

Write two new sentences with the grammar pattern, then swap one support word to change the nuance.

Focus

advanced grammar pattern practice support vocabulary

Useful examples

我看出来他不太高兴。

wǒ kàn chū lái tā bú tài gāo xìng.

I could tell that he was not very happy.

我突然想起来还有一封邮件没回。

wǒ tū rán xiǎng qǐ lái hái yǒu yì fēng yóu jiàn méi huí.

I suddenly remembered that there was still an email I had not replied to.

Abstract Directional Complements

Practice 看出来, 想起来, 说下去, and other abstract directional complements.

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Practice sentences

她把重点写出来了。

She wrote out the main points.

看this word means to perceive or tell.

请站起来。

Please stand up.

This word can mark an action starting.

请继续说下去。

Please keep speaking.

This word can mean continue onward.

我们先把原因弄清楚。

Let us first figure out the reason clearly.

This word means the reason becomes clear.

Try a few cards from this module

出来
chū lái
Meanings
to come out to appear

Module word list

Word Pinyin Meaning Dictionary
出来 chū lái to come out Dictionary
起来 qi lai (after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state Dictionary
下去 xià qù to go down Dictionary
想起来 xiǎng qǐ lái to remember; think of Dictionary
弄清楚 nòng qīng chu to figure out clearly Dictionary
看明白 kàn míng bai to understand by reading/looking Dictionary
办成 bàn chéng to accomplish successfully Dictionary
写好 xiě hǎo to finish writing well Dictionary
做得到 zuò de dào able to do; achievable Dictionary
来不及 lái bu jí there's not enough time (to do sth) Dictionary
受不了 shòu bu liǎo unable to stand Dictionary
条件 tiáo jiàn condition; circumstance; term; factor Dictionary