Word Order Variation In English Language

Many languages around the world, different languages utilize by human in order to communicates between each other, communities, regions, and countries. However, the languages are not alike. Arabic Language one of the major languages in the world. For Arabic, not only the large number of it is speakers, but more importantly for being the Language of Islam. In any language, whether it is Arabic or English or

French any sentence considers as a largest unite in the language (Humboldt, 1988).

This paper will show in some details of word order variation in Arabic sentence structure and compare with English language.

Arabic and English languages are originally different from one another, but still share some of the linguistic features.

akala Faisal a-tufahat-a (VSO) أكل فيصل التفاحةً

b. Faisal akala a-tufaha (SVO) فيصل أكل التفاحة

c. A-tufaha akala Faisal (OVS) التفاحة أكل فيصل

As can be observed, the examples above convey similar meaning only changing in the distribution of sentence elements (verb, subject, object). To interrupt, sentence

(a) using (VSO) order if the writer or speaker wants to emphasize in the action of doing (akala), not the interest in a person who eat or what does he/she eats. In the sentence (b) the focus is on the person who do the action not on the other elements, therefore the sentence begins with a subject. The structure SVO is more useful in the newspaper headlines or articles. For the last example (OVS) consists topicalized of the object, to show the importance of the object. Syntactically, the sentences are all well-formed and acceptable. Simply put, Arabic language

Besides that, the English sentence not a sentence if it is without a verb. However, sin Arabic the sentence can be formed without a verb, but not all sentences. This type appears in the present simple case. For instance: 'al-asad haiwan muftares ' الأسد حيوان مفترس .

Also, the nominal sentence starts with a noun and followed by a verb can change to a verbal sentence without any addition and changing in elements only in case- marking. For instance,

Nominal sentence: al-takteet li-dares kana najih-an

التخطيط للدرس كان ناجحاً

Verbal Sentence:

Kana al-takteet-u li-dares najih-an

كان التخطيطُ للدرس ناجحا

Even, verbal sentence can be changed to nominal sentence without changing the elements is the