English is a subject-verb-object language. What that means is the average English sentence starts with a subject, then has a verb, then has an object. On the other hand, Japanese is a subject-object-verb language.
Example sentence
| English | Subject | Verb | object |
| Cats | eat | fish | |
| Japanese | Subject | object | Verb |
| 猫（ねこ）が | さかなを | 食べます |
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