Advanced Grammar Clinic HSK 5 Required 12 words

Degree, 把, and 了 Review

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.

advanced grammar pattern practice support vocabulary

他紧张得不得了。

tā jǐn zhāng de bù dé liǎo.

He was extremely nervous.

这个版本比原来清楚得多。

zhè ge bǎn běn bǐ yuán lái qīng chu de duō.

This version is much clearer than the original.

Use degree complements like 得不得了, 得多, and 得要命 without overusing 很.

考试前一天，我紧张得不得了。

The day before the exam, I was terribly nervous.

This degree word comes after 得.

这个版本比原来清楚得多。

This version is much clearer than the original.

This word marks a large comparison gap.

今天爬了一天山，累得要命。

We climbed mountains all day today; I’m dead tired.

It follows 得 and exaggerates the tiredness.

他紧张得不得了。

He was extremely nervous.

This word is the state being intensified.

不得了

bù dé liǎo

Meanings

desperately serious disastrous

Word	Pinyin	Meaning	Level	Dictionary
不得了	bù dé liǎo	desperately serious	HSK 2.0 5 HSK 3.0 5	Dictionary
得多	de duō	much more	HSK 2.0 5 HSK 3.0 5	Dictionary
要命	yào mìng	to cause sb's death	HSK 2.0 6 HSK 3.0 7	Dictionary
紧张	jǐn zhāng	nervous	HSK 2.0 4 HSK 3.0 4	Dictionary
把	bǎ	handlebar	HSK 2.0 3 HSK 3.0 3	Dictionary
放在	fàng zài	to put at/in	HSK 2.0 5 HSK 3.0 5	Dictionary
写成	xiě chéng	to write as; turn into writing	HSK 2.0 5 HSK 3.0 5	Dictionary
整理	zhěng lǐ	to arrange	HSK 2.0 4 HSK 3.0 4	Dictionary
了	le	(completed action marker)	HSK 2.0 1 HSK 3.0 1	Dictionary
完成	wán chéng	to complete; to accomplish	HSK 2.0 3 HSK 3.0 3	Dictionary
以后	yǐ hòu	after	HSK 2.0 3 HSK 3.0 3	Dictionary
变化	biàn huà	(intransitive) to change; to vary	HSK 2.0 3 HSK 3.0 3	Dictionary