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Word order in English sentences
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Without word order, it would not be possible to understand what anyone was saying. Word order is a way to package linguistic information, weighing up the importance of some items in a sentence against others and making us sound coherent. Consider what would happen if people ignored the principles of word order. We would go around saying things like "Never eaten I have such food terrible in as restaurant that!" Quite rightly, we would be considered insane.

Word order: subject + verb + object

The importance of some items against others in sentences varies considerably from language to language. German and English are no exception. A quick comparison of two equivalent sentences is enough to see that we have to pay attention to word order differences when using the other language such as

• went to the cinema with some friends yesterday.

versus

• Gestern bin ich mit Freunden ins Kino gegangen.

Although both sentences have other possible variations which would make their word order more similar (e.g. Yesterday, I went to the cinema with some friends), this is a good example of how German almost mirrors English in this respect - it is practically the reverse of English word order.

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