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Stative verbs (also known as verbs of quality, extended state verbs, adjectival verbs or adjectives) can be distinguished from functive verbs in two: stative verbs occur with a degree modifier such as rất ‘very’ stative verbs preclude the use of exhortatives such as hãy; Giáp rất cao “Giap is very tall” *Hãy trắng! (ungrammatical)
In linguistic typology, a verb–subject–object (VSO) language has its most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in Ate Sam apples (Sam ate apples). VSO is the third-most common word order among the world's languages, [ 1 ] after SOV (as in Hindi and Japanese ) and SVO (as in English and Mandarin Chinese ).
In linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Languages may be classified according to the dominant sequence of these elements in unmarked sentences (i.e., sentences in which an unusual word order is not used for emphasis).
In linguistic typology, a verb–object–subject or verb–object–agent language, which is commonly abbreviated VOS or VOA, is one in which most sentences arrange their elements in that order. That would be the equivalent in English to "Ate apples Sam." The relatively rare default word order accounts for only 3% of the world's languages.
In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order. If English were SOV, "Sam apples ate" would be an ordinary sentence, as opposed to the actual Standard English "Sam ate apples" which is subject–verb–object (SVO).
In linguistic typology, the object–subject–verb (OSV) or object–agent–verb (OAV) word order is a structure where the object of a sentence precedes both the subject and the verb. Although this word order is rarely found as the default in most languages, it does occur as the unmarked or neutral order in a few Amazonian languages ...
d. I [S] have been [V] in the garden [A c]. e. Mary [S] gave [V] the visitor [O i] a glass of milk [O d]. f. Most people [S] consider [V] these books [O d] rather expensive [P o]. g. You [S] must put [V] all the toys [O d] upstairs [A c]. h. One [S] relied on [V] other people [O p]. i. It [S] would be [V] unfortunate [P s], to put it mildly [A ...
There are certain sentence patterns in English in which subject–verb inversion takes place where the verb is not restricted to an auxiliary verb. Here the subject may invert with certain main verbs, e.g. After the pleasure comes the pain, or with a chain of verbs, e.g. In the box will be a bottle.