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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
We do subject verb, most other languages do verb subject.
That is how it is backwards.
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Actually "SVO" (subject-verb-object) is by far the most common word order in the world's languages, and is used by most Western European languages (English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, etc) as well as Mandarin Chinese.
Second most common is "SOV" (subject-object-verb), with languages such as Latin and Japanese.
"VSO" (verb-subject-object) trails in a distant third. The most commonly-spoken language that uses it is Arabic.