Timeline for Is the SVOMPT word order necessary in creating a sentence?
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| S Mar 4, 2022 at 1:08 | history | suggested | user29750 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2022 at 15:20 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @theonlygusti It has a lot more words. In the example everything sfrom "that" to the end of the sentence is the Object. | |
| Mar 2, 2022 at 13:56 | comment | added | user29750 | What does "markedly heavier" mean? | |
| Aug 28, 2013 at 8:53 | vote | accept | MasterPJ | ||
| Feb 26, 2013 at 17:38 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 26, 2013 at 17:36 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @RussellBorogove A very good point, and quite relevant. I'll steal it! | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 16:36 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | Even the word order marked as not acceptable, "I polished off quickly the sandwiches", is perfectly understandable to a native English speaker; it's just barely disfluent. | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 14:57 | comment | added | Jay | Word order can change emphasis in English, but there is no simple rule. In this boat-buying example, it doesn't make a difference. Mostly we show emphasis in speech by inflecting the word to be emphasized, i.e. saying it a little louder and with a rise in pitch (maybe someone else can explain this better if you don't know what I mean); in print we put it in italics or all caps, like "Yesterday I bought a BOAT" versus "YESTERDAY I bought a boat." | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 14:56 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @MasterPJ and tchrist's link points you to some of the 'microordering' rules. | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 14:55 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @MasterPJ That sort of information resides more in vocal stress than sentence position; position will depend more on contextual flow. And we have 'information packaging' strategies for focus: It was last summer that I bought a boat, It was a boat I bought last summer, It was I who bought a boat last summer - that sort of thing. | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 14:20 | comment | added | MasterPJ |
Regarding the first example: I bought a boat last summer. ... Last summer I bought a boat.. Are there interpreted in the same way? In my language the first sentence would imply that the more important information (what the reader should follow) is when I bought rather then what I bought...in the second vice versa.
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| Feb 26, 2013 at 14:11 | comment | added | tchrist | Mumble, mumble, royal order of adjectives, mumble. | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 13:28 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |