word order
the way in which words are arranged in sequence in a sentence or smaller construction: In Latin, word order is freer than in English.
Origin of word order
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How to use word order in a sentence
The system, it said, was “erroneously set to flag phrases without respect to word order.”
Welcome to TikTok’s endless cycle of censorship and mistakes | Abby Ohlheiser | July 13, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThe updated phrase match will continue to respect word order when it’s important to the meaning, the announcement reads.
Google expands phrase match to include broad match modifier traffic | George Nguyen | February 4, 2021 | Search Engine LandWherever possible, the Old English syntax has been preserved (see line 1242); the word-order of the original is retained.
The Translations of Beowulf | Chauncey Brewster TinkerNote the free word-order in Spanish which permits, as in this line, the subject to follow the verb, the object to precede.
Modern Spanish Lyrics | VariousBcquer, in his striving after complicated metrical arrangements, often inverts the word-order in his verse.
Modern Spanish Lyrics | Various
This otherwise admirable sonnet is marred by the numerous inversions of the word-order.
Modern Spanish Lyrics | VariousFor this reason some sort of artificial diction is developed and some artificial word order devised.
British Dictionary definitions for word order
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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