920: Non-standard Word Order Jun 16, 2017

Word order in any language tends to be presented just as a three-letter code denoting where the grammatical subject, object, and main verb are placed. This makes sense for English, classified as SVO, as, for the most part, the position of a word in a sentence determines its function almost entirely. In other languages like Latin, the grammatical meaning is identified by endings on words, so there could theoretically be any order to the sentence, but it is nevertheless classified as SOV. It is not a rule, in any way that word may be regarded, that a sentence in a given language must be in a particular word order, so this based off of convention. For that reason, a sentence like "that I know well" is in OSV, one of the least common standard word orders for any language and may possibly be rarer than "I know that well" but is still understandable and used in regular speech largely thanks to the pronoun 'I' which is only used for the subject. Non-standard word order can also sometimes be attributed to other languages a user may speak.