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@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ Parameters for Linear Booster
 
 Learning Task Parameters
 ------------------------
+Specify the learning task and the corresponding learning objective. The objective options are below:
 * objective [ default=reg:linear ]
- - specify the learning task and the corresponding learning objective, and the objective options are below:
  - "reg:linear" --linear regression
  - "reg:logistic" --logistic regression
  - "binary:logistic" --logistic regression for binary classification, output probability