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word order

noun as in word arrangement

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Example Sentences

The system, it said, was “erroneously set to flag phrases without respect to word order.”

The updated phrase match will continue to respect word order when it’s important to the meaning, the announcement reads.

Wherever possible, the Old English syntax has been preserved (see line 1242); the word-order of the original is retained.

Note the free word-order in Spanish which permits, as in this line, the subject to follow the verb, the object to precede.

Bcquer, in his striving after complicated metrical arrangements, often inverts the word-order in his verse.

This otherwise admirable sonnet is marred by the numerous inversions of the word-order.

For this reason some sort of artificial diction is developed and some artificial word order devised.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to word order, such as: structure, syntactic arrangement, syntactics, syntactic structure, and syntax.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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