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The three basic components of a [[sentence]], the subject, object, and verb, can appear in one of six orders: SVO, SOV, VSO, OVS, OSV, and VOS.  The latter three orders are so rare that, as recently as 1977, respected linguists[http://books.google.com/books?id=A-dB-7CYMwcC&dq=&pg=PP1&ots=EW9flVe4Ue&sig=v6SQ8gVmB-Ofd9tVaV4H6M-Lwu8&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dbynon%2Bhisotrical%2Blinguistics&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title#PPR1,M1] could say that no languages existed that employed them.
The three basic components of a [[sentence]], the subject, object, and verb, can appear in one of six orders: SVO, SOV, VSO, OVS, OSV, and VOS.  The latter three orders are so rare that, as recently as 1977, respected linguists[http://books.google.com/books?id=A-dB-7CYMwcC&dq=&pg=PP1&ots=EW9flVe4Ue&sig=v6SQ8gVmB-Ofd9tVaV4H6M-Lwu8&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dbynon%2Bhisotrical%2Blinguistics&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title#PPR1,M1] could say that no languages existed that employed them.[[Category:Suggestion Bot Tag]]

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The three basic components of a sentence, the subject, object, and verb, can appear in one of six orders: SVO, SOV, VSO, OVS, OSV, and VOS. The latter three orders are so rare that, as recently as 1977, respected linguists[1] could say that no languages existed that employed them.