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===Word Order=== | ===Word Order=== | ||
Like Old English, the word order follows a subject-verb-object order, but this is rather loose since the language also has noun case. | Like Old English, the word order follows a subject-verb-object order, but this is rather loose since the language also has noun case. Questions are phrased by switching the verb and subject, or in more loose word order, putting the verb before everything else. Note that the verb never comes first in a sentence unless asking a question. | ||
===Relative and Subordinate Clauses=== | |||
Like, Old English, relative clauses are formed almost exclusively by demonstratives sȳ, sē, and þet. Instead of saying "the cat ''who'' ran away," they would say, "the cat ''that'' ran away." | |||
Subordinate clauses are formed by correlative conjunctions. This was phrased as ''then... then'' or ''which... which''. | |||
==Example texts== | ==Example texts== | ||