So is sentence order...

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Kyle Kepone

July 03, 2010, 03:58:55 AM
Subject object verb, object subject verb or subject verb object?
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July 03, 2010, 04:02:05 AM
Neither

It varies although active sentences in English are often SOV.

We don't have a list from Frommer yet of what all the different orders mean so at the moment it's almost all just intuition, the clue that 1st position is focus and final is a "punch" or as I think of it, lesser focus; and some corpus analysis.
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July 03, 2010, 11:27:38 AM
Finally reading NiaN all the way through, so maybe I'll get a better hang of this.
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