Practical Chinese Grammar-Complement：V+得+C When you learn Mandarin, you should forget your language's grammar, because Chinese grammar is different from any the others. Today, I would like to introduce the Complement. A word or phrase after a verb or an adjective predicate to provide complementing information on the predicate is called a complement. The complement of manner is used after the predicate verb to provide complementary information on the degree or manner of the action. Basic patterns: S + V + 得 + C. 1), Affirmative: 我走得很快。 2), Negative: 我写得不好。 3), Affirmative-negative questions: 你跑得快不快? 4), Special question：你们学得怎么样？ The verb should be repeated when it takes both an object and a complement of manner. The complement of manner comes after the object. When the verb is not repeated, the object comes before the predicate or before the subject. S + (V) + O + V + 得 + C. 我写汉字写得很慢。 我发音发得不太准。 我汉语说得很流利。 我妹妹歌喝得很好。 When 也or 都　is used as an adverbial, it can be put at eithre of the tow places: after “得”　i.e. 他跑得很快，　我跑得也很快。我们跑得都很快。 他跑得不快，我跑得也不快。我们跑得都不快。 or before the predicate verb, i.e. 他跑得很快，我也跑得很快。我们都跑得很快。 他跑得不快，我也跑得不快。我们都跑得不快。