Verb–object–subject word order
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verb-object-subject-word-order-216-1572292
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Verb–object–subject word order
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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 oranges Sam." The relatively rare default word order accounts for only 3% of the world's languages. It is the fourth-most common default word order among the world's languages out of the six. It is a more common default permutation than OVS and OSV but is signific
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Basic word order type
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb%E2%80%93object%E2%80%93subject_word_order
date created:
2006-04-16T11:24:34Z
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2024-09-12T22:30:12Z
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