Subject–object–verb word order
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Subject–object–verb word order
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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 oranges ate" would be an ordinary sentence, as opposed to the actual Standard English "Sam ate oranges" which is subject–verb–object (SVO). The term is often loosely used for ergative languages like Adyghe and Basque that really have agents instead of subjects.
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Feature of language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93object%E2%80%93verb_word_order
date created:
2006-04-16T11:30:26Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T15:31:09Z
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