Objective Word Order
A sentence usually begins with facts which are already known from a preceding sentence or context (theme). New and important facts (rheme) are usually placed in the final position. Compare:
- Včera zemřel známý herec. – A famous actor died yesterday. (An announcement of a death of a person – who died?)
- (Yesterday died (V) famous actor (S).)
- (Ten) známý herec zemřel včera. – The famous actor died yesterday. (When did he die?)
- ((The) famous actor (S) died (V) yesterday.)
- Byl jednou jeden král a ten král měl tři dcery. – Once upon a time there lived a king and the king had three daughters.
- (Was (V) once one king (S) and the king (S) had (V) three daughters (O).)
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Famous quotes containing the words objective, word and/or order:
“Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 11:28.
“The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.”
—Louise Bogan (1897–1970)