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Intermediate Grammar Clinic HSK 4 Required 8 words

Double Negative Emphasis

Focused practice for Double Negative Emphasis with support vocabulary and targeted demos.

Goal

Learners can recognize the pattern, explain its role, and produce two new sentences.

Write two original sentences with this pattern, then replace one noun or verb and keep the grammar stable.

Focus

grammar clinic pattern practice support vocabulary

Useful examples

这个问题不能不重视。

Practice sentence from the linked grammar guide.

这个句子里的不能不让意思更清楚。

The 不能不 in this sentence makes the meaning clearer.

Double Negatives for Emphasis: 不得不, 不能不, 没有……不

Use two negatives to make a strong positive, like 不能不去 “have to go” and 没有人不知道 “everyone knows”.

Open the grammar article

Try a few cards from this module

不能不
bù néng bù
Meanings
have to cannot but

Module word list

Word Pinyin Meaning Dictionary
不能不 bù néng bù have to Dictionary
语法 yǔ fǎ grammar Dictionary
句子 jù zi sentence Dictionary
结构 jié gòu structure Dictionary
表达 biǎo dá to express; to convey Dictionary
例子 lì zi case Dictionary
意思 yì si idea Dictionary
练习 liàn xí to practice Dictionary