Nhận biết (M1)

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Linguistic typologists classify and compare languages according to their structural features.

• One such structure is word order, or the way subjects (S), verbs (V), and objects (O) are typically arranged in a sentence.

• English employs an SVO word order (e. g., Cows eat grass).

• Bengali employs an SOV word order (e. g., Cows grass eat).

• Filipino employs a VSO word order (e. g., Eat cows grass).

• 87% of the world's languages are classified as either SVO or SOV.

The student wants to make a generalization about how word order is employed across languages. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

• A.

  Word order is one of the structural features by which linguistic typologists classify and compare the world's languages.

• B.

  Linguistic typologists analyze and compare how word order is employed across languages.

• C.

  The way in which subjects, verbs, and objects are typically arranged in a sentence is also called word order.

• D.

  The majority of languages place the subject of a sentence before the verb and object.