my-korean1-2nd-ed

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Word Order
Language has a structure. Look at the examples below:
a) I like pizza.
(Subject) (Verb) (Object)
b) I pizza like.
(Subject) (Object) (Verb)
UNIT 3 피자 좋아하세요?
The obvious difference between them is the order of the words. Why don’t
people say sentence (b)? English sentences follow a basic Subject-Verb-
Object pattern as in (a). The Korean pattern is Subject-Object-Verb as in (b).
The verb always comes at the end of the sentence.
Here are the Korean counterparts of ‘I’, ‘like’, and ‘pizza’:
Now, let’s say ‘I like pizza’ in Korean. 저 (subject) comes first, and then
피자 (object) second, and 좋아해요 (verb) last. Therefore, ‘I like pizza’ in
Korean is:
I like pizza.
저 좋아해요 피자
1) 저 피자 좋아해요.
I pizza like