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word order
noun
- the way in which words are arranged in sequence in a sentence or smaller construction:
In Latin, word order is freer than in English.
word order
noun
- the arrangement of words in a phrase, clause, or sentence. In many languages, including English, word order plays an important part in determining meanings expressed in other languages by inflections
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Word History and Origins
Origin of word order1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
Wherever possible, the Old English syntax has been preserved (see line 1242); the word-order of the original is retained.
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Note the free word-order in Spanish which permits, as in this line, the subject to follow the verb, the object to precede.
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Bcquer, in his striving after complicated metrical arrangements, often inverts the word-order in his verse.
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This otherwise admirable sonnet is marred by the numerous inversions of the word-order.
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For this reason some sort of artificial diction is developed and some artificial word order devised.
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