"Please finish writing the report as soon as possible."
Translation:请尽快把报告写完。
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and more generally can someone break down the word order and what's optional or open to different ordering?
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There are different ways of expressing this but in this sentence every word is needed in its place.
请 (please) + 尽快 (as soon as possible, as fast as you can) + 把 (supporting word)+ 报告 (report) + 写 (write) + 完 (finish)。
把 has to be in that place and is a 介词 which helps form phrases.（介词总是同其他的词组合在一起，构成介词短语，做定语、状语和补语。）
"Please finish writing the report as soon as possible." On another note, I think "Please complete the report soonest possible" should also be accepted.
- 78
"Please complete the report soonest possible" isn't correct in English. Maybe you mean "at the soonest time possible?"
- 39
I do; it is colloquial, not proper, strictly correct English, sorry about that.
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I answered the same and was marked wrong, but as a native speaker of Chinese, it sounds totally acceptable.
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You totally can. Your average Mainland Chinese is going to use the less-formal construction you have used.
@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.
