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The sentence structure of Toki Pona sentence is as follows:
The '''sentence structure''' of [[Toki Pona]] 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>).
:;<span style="opacity:0.5;">subject</span> ''li'' <span style="opacity:0.5;">verb</span> (''e'' <span style="opacity:0.5;">object</span>).
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::Subject and subject verb (object and object) and verb (object and object).
::Subject and subject verb (object and object) and verb (object and object).


[[#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>
:;[[#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&ndash;verb&ndash;object]] (SVO).
[[Toki Pona]]'s '''word order''' is known as [[wikipedia:Subject–verb–object word order|subject&ndash;verb&ndash;object]] (SVO).


==Context==
==Context==
The context before [[la]] can be a word, phrase, or entire sentence.
The context before [[la]] can be a word, [[phrase]], or [[clause]] (basically an entire sentence of its own).


==Subject==
==Subject==