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-Knašta has a SVO (subject-verb-object) word order. It uses subject-verb inversion to mark questions. However, due to the prevalence of the implied agent form, the subject is often null, and questions are only marked by a rise in intonation or the placement of an interrogative pronoun.
+Knašta has a default SVO (subject-verb-object) word order. However, in certain clauses as discussed below VSO (verb-subject-object) word order is used. Yes or no questions are marked with the final particle '''或不 (ů ní)''', which literally means "or not".
 ====Examples of Basic Sentence Order====
-Joj adora vošní.
+'''我 爱 你.'''
 <br/>
 I love you (I love you)
-Til-tweskava jo.
+'''会tweska汝 我.'''
 <br/>
 will-kill.you me (You will kill me)
-Ameskanés vošní jo?
+'''Ameska你 我 或不?'''
 <br/>
-love you me (Do you love me?)
+love.you me or.not (Do you love me?)
-Til-metsíkatsa drast?
-<br/>
-will-get.we that (Are we going to get that?)
-Kw'avesknés?
+'''Kwy 得 做你 那?'''
 <br/>
-what'have.you (What do you have?)
+why must do.you that (Why do you have to do that?)
-Kwy můsťen fétsanés vošní drast?
-<br/>
-why must do you that (Why do you have to do that?)
 ====Questions====
-As stated above, all questions in Knašta use a strict VSO word order. Unlike in English where the verbal phrase is split (example: '''Are''' you '''being''' unkind?), in Knašta the entire verbal phrase remains together:
-Ameska minǰeska íl drast?
-<br/>
-like eat he that (Does he like to eat that?)
-Questions are marked with a rise in intonation toward the end of the sentence. This is the only distinguishing factor in some questions that use the implied agent form:
-Ameskanés drast?
-<br/>
-like.you that (Do you like that?)
-Ameskanés drast.
-<br/>
-like.you that (You like that)
 Interrogative pronouns come first:
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+====VSO Word Order====
+The VSO word order is used in declarative sentences in two cases: if the time or location is specified at the beginning, or after certain conjunctions and prepositions. In many cases, the use of the implied agent form renders this moot, however.
+'''明日 会去 我的 moða 在magazatí.'''
+<br/>
+tomorrow will go my mother to the store. (Tomorrow my mother will go to the store)
+'''离2008 了了是 Obama 这leďeska 区汇的.'''
+<br/>
+from 2008 has been Obama the president of the United States (Obama has been the president of the United States since 2008)
+'''他 不能 去 因 了îtérdítsí 他的 moða 他的 去呢.'''
+<br/>
+he can't go because banned his mother his going (He can't go because he mother forbid him to go)
+'''了要我 去， 可 了îdérdítsí 我的 foða 它.'''
+<br/>
+I wanted to go but banned my father (I wanted to go, but my father forbid it)