word order
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Several researchers noted “more short sentences, confused word order, and repetition, alongside extended digressions.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2024
The literary term “anastrophe” refers to the technique of reversing word order in a sentence for effect.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023
German, she says, is often described as having free word order, but when the same experiment was run in German by another researcher, speakers used the same order more than 75 percent of the time.
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023
He and his colleagues are now testing that hypothesis with a third language—Kîîtharaka, which is spoken in Kenya—that contains a highly unusual word order, very different from that of Thai or English.
From Slate • Oct. 30, 2019
The answer usually includes part of the question, with a slight modification of words or word order.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
