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Line 1: {{Needs work\| This article is still under construction.}} The '''sentence structure''' of [[Toki Pona ~~sentence~~]] is as follows: :;<span style="opacity:0.5;">subject</span> ''li'' <span style="opacity:0.5;">verb</span> (''e'' <span style="opacity:0.5;">object</span>). Line 6: :;<span style="opacity:0.5;">subject</span> ''en'' <span style="opacity:0.5;">subject</span> ''li'' <span style="opacity:0.5;">verb</span> (''e'' <span style="opacity:0.5;">object</span> ''e'' <span style="opacity:0.5;">object</span>) ''li'' <span style="opacity:0.5;">verb</span> (''e'' <span style="opacity:0.5;">object</span> ''e'' <span style="opacity:0.5;">object</span>). ::Subject and subject verb (object and object) and verb (object and object).<ref>{{cite web\|title=nasin toki pona\|author=jan Juli\|url=https://github.com/kilipan/nasin-toki\|website=GitHub}}</ref><ref>Jean-Marc Quéré, ''sona li wan'' (2021) p. 9</ref><ref>{{cite pu\|17, 20, 25, 26, 34, 35, 48, 49, 51, 56}}</ref> :;[[#context\|'''context''']] {{tp\|[[la]]}} [[#subject\|'''subject''']] {{tp\|[[li]]}} [[#predicate\|'''predicate''']] {{tp\|[[e]]}} [[#direct object\|'''direct object''']] {{tp\|[[preposition]]}} [[#indirect object\|'''indirect object''']].<ref>{{cite web\|title=nasin toki pona\|author=jan Juli\|url=https://github.com/kilipan/nasin-toki\|website=GitHub}}</ref><ref>Jean-Marc Quéré, ''sona li wan'' (2021) p. 9</ref><ref>{{cite pu\|17, 20, 25, 26, 34, 35, 48, 49, 51, 56}}</ref> [[Toki Pona]]'s '''word order''' is known as [[wikipedia:Subject–verb–object word order\|subject–verb–object]] (SVO). ==Context== The context before [[la]] can be a word, [[phrase]], or [[clause]] (basically an entire sentence of its own). ==Subject== Line 33 ⟶ 35: :This is typically the opposite of English, but there are counterexamples like "<u>someone</u> special", "<u>anything</u> new", "<u>time</u> immemorial", and "<u>Alcoholics</u> Anonymous". ==Free word order== {{~~Fun\|~~Start section\|Fun}} An experimental system for [[wikipedia:Free word order\|free word order]] was created as an April Fools' Day joke. Most speakers do not use or easily understand it. Line 68 ⟶ 69: Besides its lack of acceptance, there are some potential problems with this system. The correspondence between multiple verbs and objects may be lost, and it unclear what would happen to context phrases. Also, sentence boundaries may be unclear. {{End section}} ==See also== [[Passive voice]] [[Phrases and clauses]] ==References== <references /> {{General}}