Back to forum
Verbal·Expression of Ideas·Rhetorical Synthesis
medium
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?
A
The majority of languages place the subject of a sentence before the verb and object.
B
Word order is one of the structural features by which linguistic typologists classify and compare the world’s languages.
C
Linguistic typologists analyze and compare how word order is employed across languages.
D
The way in which subjects, verbs, and objects are typically arranged in a sentence is also called word order.