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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a basic skill" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a fundamental ability or competence that is essential in a particular context or field.
Example: "Learning to read and write is considered a basic skill for all students."
Alternatives: "an essential skill" or "a fundamental skill".
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"It's a basic skill.
Mental health professionals fancy themselves good interviewers because it's a basic skill of each of the crafts.
But, they are wrong (or probably wrong) both about the future and about the need for coding to become a basic skill alongside literacy and numeracy.
Of course, tackling remains a basic skill in the N.F.L. regardless of a team's defensive scheme, and the Giants continued to be abysmal at bringing down ball carriers.
And even those who do not share those reasons still learn how to work in tightly bonded units to reach a common cause — a basic skill for community service.
In this way, a basic skill or piece of knowledge spreads through society, "and then one individual will refine it, and then that will be spread through the society, and then that process will be repeated".
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I'm a basic skills tutor at homelessness charity St Mungo's Broadway.
His mother is a basic skills teacher at Littlebrook Elementary School in Princeton.
"At that time, there was a basic skills test you had to pass in order to graduate.
"A Labour government will introduce a basic skills test to assess all new claimants for jobseeker's allowance within six weeks of claiming benefits.
To that end, Ms. Johnson recently ran a summer program in White Plains that wrapped a basic skills curriculum around field trips and speakers, and even included tennis lessons.
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