"Please finish writing the report as soon as possible."

Translation: 请尽快把报告写完。

[bobking12]

Why can you not say: 请尽快写完报告?

[yession]

I answered the same and was marked wrong, but as a native speaker of Chinese, it sounds totally acceptable.

[pBBite]

I really appreciate input like this from native speakers!
Just wondering though, why are you doing this course?

[KX3.]

To help learners here :)

[Dr_Jerry]

You totally can. Your average Mainland Chinese is going to use the less-formal construction you have used.

[RanzoG]

It's accepted now, 2020 January.

[paytheline]

Not for me it wasn't!

[kokaku]

and more generally can someone break down the word order and what's optional or open to different ordering?

[dddcaprio]

请尽快把报告写完 is more like "please get the report written ASAP". here, "写完" is the state that the speaker wishes to have the report be ("written").
请尽快写完报告 is more like "please write the report ASAP". here, "写完" is a verb ("finish writing").

[Charlimagnus]

@bobking12 I think its grammatically incorrect to have a modifier between the verb and the object in Chinese. In your answer the modifier 完 is between the verb 写 and the object 报告. For the sentence to be grammatically correct you have to use the 把 structure as they did in the answer.

[Sara154874]

why do you need 把?

[juanluisme845441]

请尽快写完了这张报告... should be accepted

[IanMcFarla17]

No, because there is no 'this' in the English sentence to be translated.

[Username19636]

Yes but without 了

[Larswong]

Im pretty sure whoever made this course is copying off of google translate. Don't get Duolingo plus, these people are lazy