![]() If we don’t take those extra steps to complete the idea, though, the reversed order doesn’t work. ![]() With the verb first, these ideas don’t make immediate sense and, depending on the verbs, may suggest to English speakers a subject is missing or a question is being formed with missing components. If we change the order, we change the functioning of the sentence. ![]() We give words their position based on the function we want them to convey. Why does this order matter? We know what the grammatical units are because of their position in the sentence. In the correct order, a subject and verb can communicate ideas with immediate sense with as little as two or three words.
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