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* Postponement, Fronting and Inversion Lecture VIII Sentence Structure SV SVO SVC SVOiOd SVOC SVAd There be The natural order? Subject+predicate Word Order Modern English has a more or less fixed word order in sentence construction. According to its normal, or natural, order, the subject usually comes first and the predicate follows the subject. Apart from the adverbial which is mobile, the positions of the other four clause elements—subject, predicator, object, and complement—are almost fixed, that is, the subject precedes the predicator which is followed by the object or the comple