A sentence normally contains at least two elements, the subject (x) and the verb (o). These two elements are the most important members of the sentence because they form the actual sentence. A subject is the person or thing that performs the activity which the verb describes (see Mini-dictionary).
In a normal sentence structure the subject comes before the verb. This is called normal word order.
| Manden | sover. | The | man | is | sleeping. | ||||||
| x | o | x | o |
| Han | spiser. | He | is | eating. | |||||||
| x | o | x | o |
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In English normal word order is the most common sentence structure.