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  Only one chinese linguist, the great C.-T. J. Huang, has ever had anything interesting to say about chinese, what he called the Phrase Structure Condition: Simplifying a little, it says that everything after the verb must either be a single phrase (e.g. the direct object), or the indirect object and then the direct object. If there are two verbs in series, the same rule applies to everything after the first verb but before the second one. So "I went to the store really fast&quot...