1. The computer has a voice component that allows it to speak basic sentences . 2. Thus the two basic sentence pitch contours are rising-falling and rising. 3. Once you are able to understand simple words and basic sentences , you are expected to improve. 4. In other words, it was the students'job to recite the basic sentence patterns and grammatical structures. 5. He taught her to look for important pieces of information and to ignore basic sentence structure. 6. The basic sentence structure is Subject Object Verb. 7. The basic sentence structure is topic comment. 8. Instead, the player uses two scrolling " word wheel " menus on the screen to construct basic sentences . 9. For example, Japanese would be considered to be OV . A basic sentence demonstrating this would be as follows. 10. For example, English would be considered to be VO . A basic sentence demonstrating this would be as follows.