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Question

Subject Action Object - What is SOV vs SVO examples?

Answer

Unlike Standard English, which has the subject-verb-object (SVO) pattern, an SOV English language would treat the statement "Sam water drank" as any other regular sentence. Informally, languages like Adyghe and Basque, which genuinely have agents instead of subjects, are called ergative.