Because remember I said that, typically, when you hear a sentence you make --you manufacture in your mind gaps between the words.

你们记得我之前说过,通常来说,当你听到一个句子时,你会通过心理活动,在词与词之间创造出间隔

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That's how we speak. That's how we make a sentence.

这就是我们说话造句的方式。

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And the way to read this rule is you make a sentence by taking a noun, any noun, putting a verb after it, and then following that verb with a noun.

这个规则的内容是,你这样来创造一个句子,用一个名词,任何一个名词,在名词后跟一个动词,再在动词后跟上一个名词

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