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Comments Content: This essay is rich in ideas. The writer opens the essay with an interesting description of the mystery of language, and leads readers naturally to the thesis of the essay “language plays many roles.” The writer then explains three roles of language, each being well explained and adequately supported. Moreover, the writer’s view is never shallow. Instead, the writing relates the role of language to humanity, holding that “With language, human beings are qualified to call ourselves the most advanced creatures.” Such a viewpoint is comparatively rare among Ss. The writer also adopts a series of strategies in writing, for example, making comparison and contrast between human and animal language, giving examples of “harmony.” Those evidence and examples well support the writer’s arguments and make the claim convincing. Language: We are in a position to say that the writer has a relatively strong command of language skills. The ideas are fully and clearly expressed. There are a variety of sentence structures. What is most notable is that the ideas flow naturally and smoothly, thanks to the effective use of the language. Structure: The essay is reader-friendly in that it has a clear structure. In the opening paragraph, the writer nicely navigates readers to the topic sentence “language plays many roles”. Then the writer identifies three major roles of language: the symbol of human beings, an expression of ideas / feelings, and the carrier of culture. The writer starts every body paragraph with a clear topic sentence, explaining each role of the language with examples or analysis. The essay then concludes with a summary of the main ideas “language plays so many important roles that they can’t be listed out totally.” Generally speaking, this essay has a nice structure. Still, the concluding paragraph is not satisfying enough. The concluding paragraph is meant to remind readers of