For many languages, the idea that the subject belongs up front is plain backward. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast feeds. Please ...

When the subject of a sentence isn't doing something, the verb is passive. On the other hand, a sentence is active when the subject performs the verb (action). For example, in this sentence the verb ...

‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper comprises an investigation of the order of the main sentence elements (subject, verb, and object) in Greek stichic verse, and ...

This paper attempts to extend from syntax (basic word order) to morphology (the distribution of pronouns and their exponents) one of the three functional principles that Tomlin (1986) invokes in order ...