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  2. Greenberg's linguistic universals - Wikipedia

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    "If a language has dominant order VSO in declarative sentences, it always puts interrogative words or phrases first in interrogative word questions; if it has dominant order SOV in declarative sentences, there is never such an invariant rule." "If the nominal object always precedes the verb, then verb forms subordinate to the main verb also ...

  3. Subject–verb–object word order - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Verb–object–subject word order - Wikipedia

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    That sentence displays a transitive verb with markers, indicating agreement in phi features for the subject and the object. The analysis of each affix is as follows: Pi (1): The "Pi" refers to the second-person singular, indicating that the sentence involves direct conversation. One may assume that the person being identified is "you."

  5. Word order - Wikipedia

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    The subject, verb, and object can come in any order in a Latin sentence, although most often (especially in subordinate clauses) the verb comes last. [25] Pragmatic factors, such as topic and focus, play a large part in determining the order. Thus the following sentences each answer a different question: [26] "Romulus Romam condidit."

  6. Object–verb–subject word order - Wikipedia

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    In an active voice sentence like Sam ate the oranges, the grammatical subject, Sam, is the agent and is acting on the patient, the oranges, which are the object of the verb, ate. In the passive voice, The oranges were eaten by Sam, the order is reversed and so that patient is followed by the verb and then the agent.

  7. Verb-initial word order - Wikipedia

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    In syntax, verb-initial (V1) word order is a word order in which the verb appears before the subject and the object. In the more narrow sense, this term is used specifically to describe the word order of V1 languages (a V1 language being a language where the word order is obligatorily or predominantly verb-initial).

  8. English language - Wikipedia

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    The combination of SVO order and use of auxiliary verbs often creates clusters of two or more verbs at the centre of the sentence, such as he had hoped to try to open it. In most sentences, English only marks grammatical relations through word order. [223] The subject constituent precedes the verb and the object constituent follows it.

  9. Subordination (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, subordination (abbreviated variously SUBORD, SBRD, SUBR or SR) is a principle of the hierarchical organization of linguistic units.While the principle is applicable in semantics, morphology, and phonology, most work in linguistics employs the term "subordination" in the context of syntax, and that is the context in which it is considered here.