"Everything from basic language skills of agreement of subject and verb, use of commas and other punctuation, complete and incomplete sentences, so that we can move from basic writing/language skills to the more sophisticated skills that graduate students, upper level undergraduates and people in the work world use."

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There's no language in the world that has a rule that says the fifth word has to be a verb.

世界上并没有语言规定,说第五个词必须是动词

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So, English is what's known as a subject-verb-object language.

英语是所谓的主谓宾结构的语言

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