Subject-Verb-Object. Right? For many languages, the idea that the subject belongs up front is plain backward.

Subject-verb agreement means that a verb takes the right form to match its subject. For example, a singular first-person subject, “I,” gets paired with the first-person singular verb “am ...

This subject, verb, object (SVO) structure is the usual grammatical system for English and other languages like Mandarin, Spanish and Russian.

WE all know that when a sentence uses a transitive verb as the operative verb, it's absolutely necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: 'The woman spurned her suitor last ...

Singular subjects get verbs conjugated in the singular, and plural subjects get verbs conjugated in the plural. But language can get complicated.