Word order

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Word order is a part of grammar. It has to do with the order words are in a sentence. The word order is often different between languages. For example, in English, you say "I only sometimes play tennis." In German, you'd say "Ich spiele nur manchmal Tennis," which if you translate only the words says "I play only sometimes tennis." In Norwegian that same sentence would be "Eg spelar berre tennis nokre gongar", directly translated to "I play only tennis some times" in english. In Portuguese this sentence could be "Eu só jogo tênis algumas vezes"; translating each word to English: "I only play tennis some times". Or even in Portuguese you could change the word order to "Eu jogo tênis só algumas vezes" ("I play tennis only some times"), but you cannot say "Eu jogo só tênis algumas vezes", because this means "I play only tennis sometimes".

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