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[rrock]

Dear friend:
In the following sentence. Does it really make sense? Does anybody know what I mean?
"I went to a primary school of neighborhood this sundown to walk around the playground 20 times as my exercise."
I am afraid nobody know what I mean. If you know what I mean, could you correct the sentence?
I think the sentence is funny to a native english speaker. By the way, In the following phrases, are they all correct?
1. a native english speaker
2. an English native speaker
3. a native speaker of english
4. a speaker of native english
wow! English is really Greek to me. I am confused.

Thanks for your help!

[CP]

To correct it with the least change:

"I went to a neighborhood primary school at sundown to walk around the playground 20 times as my exercise."

You could shorten it without changing the meaning:

"I went to a neighborhood school at dusk to circle the playground 20 times for exercise."

Hope this helps.
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