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2. Subject–auxiliary inversion - Wikipedia

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   Subject–auxiliary inversion involves placing the subject after a finite auxiliary verb, [2] rather than before it as is the case in typical declarative sentences (the canonical word order of English being subject–verb–object).

3. Subject–verb inversion in English - Wikipedia

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   The following sentences illustrate subject–verb inversion. They compare canonical order with the more marked inversion order, and they demonstrate that subject–verb inversion is unlikely if the subject is a weak (non-stressed) definite pronoun: a. Jim sat under the tree. b. Under the tree sat Jim. - Subject–verb inversion c. *Under the ...

4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   English word order has moved from the Germanic verb-second (V2) word order to being almost exclusively subject–verb–object (SVO). The combination of SVO order and use of auxiliary verbs often creates clusters of two or more verbs at the center of the sentence, such as he had hoped to try to open it. In most sentences, English marks ...

5. Cloze test - Wikipedia

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   The definition of success in a given cloze test varies, depending on the broader goals behind the exercise. Assessment may depend on whether the exercise is objective (i.e. students are given a list of words to use in a cloze) or subjective (i.e. students are to fill in a cloze with words that would make a given sentence grammatically correct).

6. Inversion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   A characteristic of Germanic languages, except modern English, which still has remnants of this principle, is that non-question sentences, including clauses that aren't themselves questions, have a V2 word order, meaning that the finite verb is the second syntactic constituent in the sentence or clause.

7. 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).

8. Word order - Wikipedia

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   Fixed word order is one out of many ways to ease the processing of sentence semantics and reducing ambiguity. One method of making the speech stream less open to ambiguity (complete removal of ambiguity is probably impossible) is a fixed order of arguments and other sentence constituents. This works because speech is inherently linear.

9. Phrase structure rules - Wikipedia

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   An important aspect of phrase structure rules is that they view sentence structure from the top down. The category on the left of the arrow is a greater constituent and the immediate constituents to the right of the arrow are lesser constituents.