Rearranging Drupal navigation menu - php

Good day.
I am trying to modify the navigation menu layout of a drupal theme. The problem is i'm not a coder, but can follow tutorials and understand bits and peaices.
What I have is a set of menus and sub menus. At the moment the sub menus expand below their parent menus. What I want is for the sub menus to expand but live below all the parent menus so it would look like the structure below.
How it currently looks
Navigation_Menu_One
Sub_Menu_One
Sub_Menu_Two
Sub_Menu_Three
Navigation_Menu_Two
Navigation_Menu_Three
What I want it to end up looking like:
Navigation_Menu_One
Navigation_Menu_Two
Navigation_Menu_Three
Sub_Menu_One
Sub_Menu_Two
Sub_Menu_Three
What I have figured out is that the menu system is built from the following class's
<ul class="menu">
<li class="first collapsed"></li>
<li class="first collapsed"></li>
<li class="collapsed"></li>
<li class="expanded active-trail"> (The expanded Menu)
<ul class="menu"></ul> (the sub menu I want to relocate)
</li>
<li class="collapsed"></li>
<li class="collapsed"></li>
<li class="collapsed"></li>
<li class="last collapsed"></li>
</ul>
So what I want to do is be able to add something to the page that would capture the
<ul class="menu"></ul>
that appears below the
<li class="expanded active-trail">
and relocate it to below the last class or another div.
I understand I will need to do this using PHP from one of the template files with in the theme. Would any one have any idea how I would go about doing this. The theme I am using is the Corolla theme if that helps at all, but I guess it would be the same for any theme.

Hi and welcome to StackOverflow.
It seems to me from your description that you should be able to achieve this without writing any code. Simply navigate to site building > menus > navigation and use the drag handles to move the sub menus so that they are underneath the desired menu item.

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