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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
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Example Sentences
The system, it said, was “erroneously set to flag phrases without respect to word order.”
The updated phrase match will continue to respect word order when it’s important to the meaning, the announcement reads.
Wherever possible, the Old English syntax has been preserved (see line 1242); the word-order of the original is retained.
Note the free word-order in Spanish which permits, as in this line, the subject to follow the verb, the object to precede.
Bcquer, in his striving after complicated metrical arrangements, often inverts the word-order in his verse.
This otherwise admirable sonnet is marred by the numerous inversions of the word-order.
For this reason some sort of artificial diction is developed and some artificial word order devised.
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