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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- Linguistic typologists classify and compare languages according to their structural features.
- One such structure is word order, or the way subjects (S), verbs (V), and objects (O) are typically arranged in a sentence.
- English employs an SVO word order (e.g., Cows eat grass).
- Bengali employs an SOV word order (e.g., Cows grass eat).
- Filipino employs a VSO word order (e.g., Eat cows grass).
- 87% of the world's languages are classified as either SVO or SOV.
The student wants to make a generalization about how word order is employed across languages. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
The majority of languages place the subject of a sentence before the verb and object.
A
Word order is one of the structural features by which linguistic typologists classify and compare the world's languages.
B
Linguistic typologists analyze and compare how word order is employed across languages.
C
The way in which subjects, verbs, and objects are typically arranged in a sentence is also called word order.
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