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CaptainThunder (Offline)
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11-28-2008, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Sangetsu View Post
There is a little discrepancy, Japanese sentence order is not necessarily Subject, Object, Verb. A grammatically correct sentence in Japanese can be written or spoken with a single verb. The only real rule is that the verb always comes at the end of the sentence. Subject and object are interchangeable, depending on how particles are used; particles are what define the grammatical function of a word, not it's order in the sentence, right?
Yep. 私はりんごを食べる makes just as much sense as りんごを私は食べる, although the latter might not sound as natural.
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