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Examples of word order in a Sentence
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The old models—LSTMs and RNNs—had word order implicitly built into the models.
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Haomiao Huang, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2023
Nordlinger had always argued that many Australian languages had free word order, unlike other languages.
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Christine Kenneally, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
Na’vi word order is very flexible).
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Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2022
Applying biology techniques to linguistics, the team built an evolutionary tree of word order.
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Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2011
There is no need to specify the subject, or even to keep to a strict word order.
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Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
This revealed the importance of word order, word meaning, and word combinations in the final product—otherwise reframed as the impact of signal motif identity, function and arrangement on T cell phenotype.
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William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
Research published in April suggests that some language rules, like word order, are culturally based and must be learned.
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Joseph Castro, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2011
These gestural communication systems often display language-like structures such as a stable vocabulary and consistent word order.
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Grace Neveu, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1872, in the meaning defined above
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“Word order.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/word%20order. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
word order
noun
: the order or arrangement of words in a phrase, clause, or sentence
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