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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Aug 24 23:46:12 2016, in response to Re: 17 Grammar Mistakes to Stop Correcting, posted by New Flyer #857 on Wed Aug 24 16:35:48 2016. Imagine if English sentences saved the verb for the end?The normal sentence word order for English is subject, verb, object. For many languages, like French, the order is subject object verb. Thus in English it's: I love you; whereas in French it's: je t'aime. Other languages, like Russian, have no word order. It's a declined language, where nouns take on endings depending on their grammatical case. For example "Trump likes Putin" could be translates either as: Трумп любит Путина (Trump likes Putina) or Путина любит Трумп (Putina likes Trump) In the first example it's subject verb object; in the second it's object verb subject. In both cases, an a has been added to Putin's name to denote it's the direct object. There's a different ending for indirect objects. There is a vestige of declension with the possessive case in English. We will usually add 's to a noun to denote possession, e.g. John's book. There's no such construction in French. They say: the book of John or le livre de Jean. |
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