Grammar
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Grammar is the study of the rules governing use of language. As such, it is part of the discipline of linguistics.
Sentence Structure
SVO refers to subject, verb, object. An English example of this is I buy the paper. In German this would be rendered Ich kaufe die Zeitung.
- Subject is the agent of the action (such as a person).
- Verb is the action being undertaken (the thing being done eg. buying).
- Object is the item, person or thing that has the action done to it (eg. the paper).
Other languages have different sentence structures. Besides SVO, the two most common are SOV (subject, object, verb), as used in Japanese, and VSO (verb, subject, object), as used in Biblical Hebrew.