word order
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1.6
- noun
- /wɜrd ˈɔrdər/
- Specialized
:
orden de las palabras
- The oral content may lack proper word order (syntax), which makes comprehension difficult.
- verb-object word order
- word order of subject
- normal word order
V word order is most common in subordinate clauses.
- V word order is most common in subordinate clauses.
- In one of your tweets, you mentioned writing action lines with special attention paid to word order and what you call anchoring nouns.
- So I have this kind of very literal translation for you, and I did not change word order.
- But you're supposed to then figure out that it means well, when you would translate it out from the Greek, you would put it in the proper word order in English.
- Choosing the right word in the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
Examples
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Think about your word order.
Academic text (2010) -
Choosing the right word in the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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It's not the most common word order here.
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Have two word orders, each of which means only a single thing.
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So I tried to maintain the exact same word order in English as I was in Chinese.
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The word order of the sentences is the same; the verb is in the same place.
Academic text (1994) -
The important issue here is the word order, which places the Hebrew verb second in the sentence.
Blog text (7) -
The second sentence also uses word order to pique our interest.
Academic text (2011) -
Such a meaning is not the meaning conveyed by the Hebrew word order in Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.
Blog text (7) -
The teacher explained that the word order in each sentence impacts its meaning.
Synonyms
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2.7
The way things are placed or organized in a place
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5.4
Rules that tell how to put words into sentences or how to write computer code
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2.7
Arranging things in a particular sequence so they are easy to find
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2.8
The order of words and groups of words used to make sentences
The order and grouping of words in a sentence that make parts like the subject and verb
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the arrangement of words in a sentence' is directly and compositionally derived from 'word' (meaning unit of language) + 'order' (sequence), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE. This is a common, cross-linguistically transparent compound concept in grammar terminology and thus readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Word order comes from the simple image of putting each word in a fixed order, like lining up people so you can tell who does what. So the place of each word decides the sentence's 'meaning', and changing the order can change 'who did what'.