word order

noun

the way in which words are arranged in sequence in a sentence or smaller construction: In Latin, word order is freer than in English.

Origin:
1890–95

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word order

—n
	the arrangement of words in a phrase, clause, or sentence. In many languages, including English, word order plays an important part in determining meanings expressed in other languages by inflections

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Word order is always a great word to know.

So is gobo. Does it mean:

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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Apart from the word order the number of sub-clauses is unavoidably clumsy.

On the other hand, proper names display cross-linguistic constant meaning but variable word order.

Might want to do some re-reading, since you got the word order wrong.

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"One of the most important things, to my mind, in English style is word-order. For us, the most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word. One should therefore think twice about what one puts at a sentence-end. But in a German sentence this final position may be reserved, by a most curious grammatical convention, for an infinitive or past participle; or, in a subordinate clause, for the main verb. Thus logical emphasis, unless particularly strong, tends to be sacrificed to mere grammar."

-F.L. Lucas