What is Active Voice? In active voice, the subject of the sentence does the action. Structure of Active Voice: Subject + Verb + Object Examples: ...

Even more unusual is the way Yoda famously speaks, ordering his sentences object-subject-verb, or OSV: The lightsaber Yoda grasped.

English typically uses a strict SUBJECT VERB OBJECT (SVO) word order in simple sentences, as in Students (S) read (V) books (O). This SVO word order becomes altered in many other English sentence ...

However, only two dependencies (object–verb order and adposition–noun order; and object–verb order and genitive–noun order) are found in more than one language family, and no dependencies ...