Question

English is an SVO language, so our grammar rules are designed to predict that objects follow verbs, and subjects precede verbs. S -> NP VP VP -> TV NP What rules would predict an SOV language, where the object precedes the verb, and the subject precedes the object?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

English is an SVO language. And these abbreviation is thus;

S- SUBJECT

V- VERB

O- OBJECT

This however, describes the typical structure of a sentence and how sentences follows this pattern but... There are always exceptions!

This question seeks to explore the interaction of the syntactic categories i.e. the lexical and non-lexical categories.

The phrasal structure of the SVO language follows;

S -> NP (Noun phrase) + VP (Verb phrase)

VP -> V + NP

The SOV language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order.

An example is "I you Love"

Noun 1 - Noun 2 - singular Verb

Noun 1 - Adjective 1 - Adjective 2- Noun 2.

Adjective 1 - Noun 1 - Adjective 2- Noun 2.

Noun - Adjective - Adverb - Verb.

SOV is a basic structure and they aren't found often.

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

As regards this question, fact remains that something like 75% of world languages are either SVO or SOV or both. For the purpose of this question, our subject predicts object while objects predict verb (e.g Shade's pen was used by me).

Format goes thus: S-NP->VP.