In inflected languages, we do not depend on the word order to understand which noun is the subject of a sentence and which is the object. The endings tell us immediately. In English, the order of words is essential to the meaning of a sentence. We have to distinguish carefully between the subject-group and the verb-group (or predicate). The predicate is what is said about the subject, i.e. it is all the words in a sentence except the subject.

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The Sentence and Word Order

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Let's do English ESL general grammar practice. In inflected languages, we do not depend on the word order to understand which noun is the subject of a sentence…