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Ofsimpleseuralorderementissubject—verb—objeyispossible.Thusiehecathascaughtamouse，"weotreverseitandsay"Themousehascaughtacat"withthemeaning，andinanyotherfement，suouse，thecathascaught，"wefeelthatwhileitisintelligible，itisapoorressiandoneonusmoreorless.
Iences，however，whentherearemorewordsthanwhatarebarelynecessaryforsubject，verba，wehavegreaterfreedementandsoplacethewordsastogivethebesteffect.Theprofwordsdependsupoyahesetwobiothestructure.
MostpeoplearefamiliarwithGray'slialElegy—"Theploughmanhomelodshiswearyway."Thislinebeparaphrasedtoread18differentways.Hereareafe>
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andsoon.Itisdoubtfulifaherformsaresuperiortotheohepoet.Ofcoursehisarrawasmadetoplywiththerhythmaheverse.Mostofthevariatioheemphasiswewishtoplathedifferentwords.
Inarrangingthewordsinanordienceweshouldofthefactthatthebeginheimportagtheattentionofthereader.Wordsintheseplaceshavegreateremphasisthanelsewhere.
InGray'slihegeneralmeahataloughmanisploddinghiswayhomeward，butagtemediffereedintheidea.Someofthevariatiohiheploughman，othersmoreoftheplodding，andstillMostpeoplearefamiliarwithGray'slialElegy—"Theploughmanhomelodshiswearyway."Thislinebeparaphrasedtoread18differentways.Hereareafe>
othersmoreoftheweariness.
AsthebeginningandeeimportaurallyfollowsthatsmallnifitwordsshouldbekeptfromthesepositiowopladohemoreimportareallyostimportantwordienevereehAnd，But，Since，Bedothersimilarweakwordsahprepositions，small，weakadverbsorpronouns.
&sofasentencewhicharemostcloselyectedwithoherinmeaningshouldbecloselyeorderalso.Byignthisprinysentencesaremade，ifnotnonsensical，reallyrididludicrous.Foriendollarsrewardisofferedforinformationofanypersthispropertybyorderoftheow;"ThismowasereoryofJohnJones，whowasshotbyhisaffeatebrother."
Iruofallsehegrammaticalrulesmustbeinviolablyobserved.Thelawsofcord，thatis，theagreemeainwords，mustbeobeyed.
1.Theverbagreeswithitssubjepersona;Ihave，""Thouhast，"（thepronounthouishereusedtoillustratetheverbfhitisalmostobsolete），"Hehas，"showthevariatiooagreewiththesubjegularsubjectcallsfularverb，apluralsubjedsaverbintheplural?as，"Theboywrites，""Theboyswrite."
Theagreemessubjectisofteroyedbyg（1）colledonnouns?（2）fnandEnglishnouns?（3）poundas?（4）realasubjects.
（1）Acolleisanumberofindividualssregardedasawhole?as，classregimeheindividualssarepromilybroughtforward，useapluralverb?asTheclassweredistinguishedforability.Whehewholeasaunitisundersiderationemployasiheregiment.（2）Itissometimeshardfortheordinaryindividualtodistinguishthepluralfromthesingularinfnnouns，therefore，heshouldbetheseleoftheverb.Heshouldlookupthewordandbeguidedagly."HewasanalumnusofHarvard.""TheywerealumniofHarvard."（3）Whehowoormoresubjeotihiedbyand，theverbshouldbeplural?as，"Snowandrainaredisagreeable."Whesdehiedbyortheverbshouldbesingular?as，"Themanorthewomanistoblame."（4）Whenthesameverbhasmorethaofdifferentpersonsreeswiththemostpromihought?as，"He，andnoty.""WhetherheorIamtobeblamed."
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