subject–verb–object (Q4150)

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sentence structure where the subject comes 1st, the verb 2nd, the object 3rd (e.g. “I ate a pie”); the default word order in English as well as Cantonese, French, Hausa, Italian, Malay, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, etc.
  • subject-verb-object
  • SVO
  • SVO language
Language Label Description Also known as
English
subject–verb–object
sentence structure where the subject comes 1st, the verb 2nd, the object 3rd (e.g. “I ate a pie”); the default word order in English as well as Cantonese, French, Hausa, Italian, Malay, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, etc.
  • subject-verb-object
  • SVO
  • SVO language

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