Language/Standard-arabic/Grammar/Word-order
< Language | Standard-arabic | Grammar
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Rate this lesson: 
Word order refers to the orders in which words are structured to from a sentence in a given language .
- Consider the English sentence : I ate an apple , but first let's remove the article AN for simplicity, so we'rejust left with I ate apple. The basic word order for English is SVO ( Subject-Verb-Object ). if we break down the English sentence I ate apple , we can see that the Subject " I " is presented first followed by the Verb "ate" and finally the Object applnce( I ate apple ) ,The Arabic written from right to left.
The same sentence in Arabic : Ate I apple. the Verb is the first than Subject and finilly the Object..