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Subject verb object
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{{linguistic typology topics}}
In
linguistic typology, '''subject-verb-object''' ('''SVO''') is a sentence structure where the
subject (grammar) subject comes first, the
verb second, and the
object (grammar) object third.
Languages are classified according to the dominant sequence of these constituents of sentences. The SVO and
Subject Object Verb orders are by far the two most common, accounting for more than 75% of the world's languages.
[{{cite book
| last = Crystal
| first = David
| authorlink = David Crystal
| title = The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
| edition = 2nd edition
| year = 1997
| publisher = Cambridge University Press
| location = Cambridge
| id = ISBN 0-521-55967-7
}}] English language English,
Chinese language Chinese,
Vietnamese language Vietnamese,
Thai language Thai,
Khmer language Khmer, the
Romance languages,
Russian language Russian,
Bulgarian language Bulgarian,
Swahili language Kiswahili,
Hausa language Hausa,
Yoruba language Yoruba,
Nahuatl language Nahuatl,
Quiché language Quiche,
Guaraní language Guaraní,
Javanese language Javanese,
Malay language Malay and
Indonesian language Indonesian are examples of languages that follow this pattern.
An example of this order in English is:
:''Sam ate the oranges.''
In this, ''Sam'' is the subject, ''ate'' is the verb, ''the oranges'' is the object.
Some languages are more complicated: in
German language German and in
Dutch language Dutch, SOV is considered basic in
generative grammar even though SVO is the unmarked order in declarative main clauses. See
V2 word order.
See also
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Sources
es:Sujeto Verbo Objeto
eo:Subjekto Verbo Objekto
fr:Langue SVO
it:Soggetto Verbo Oggetto
ja:SVO型
no:SVO-språk
nn:SVO-språk
pl:SVO
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