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# Word order
## Sentences
Sentences in Ravna are best not analyzed in terms of subjects and objects, but
topic and comment. The sentence order is topic-comment-verb, which might
appears as SOV or OSV if one uses subject-object model. When the comment
includes both a subject and object, however, the subjects mostly comes first.
## Modifiers
Modifiers (adjectives, adverbs) follow the words they modify.
## Adverbials
While the rule for modifiers extends to spatial adverbial phrases, it should be
noted that destination and origin are *before* a verb. Some examples for this
rule:
| Ravna | English |
|-------|---------|
| | I ran *inside the forest*. |
| | I ran *into the forest*. |
| | I ran *out of the forest*. |
Naturally, this applies for non-place destinations and sources as well.
However, these words don't have to be directly before a verb
| Ravna | English |
|-------|---------|
| | She gave *me* an apple. |
| | I fetched water *from the creek*. |
Instrumental adverbials behave just like normal adverbs:
| Ravna | English |
|-------|---------|
| | He answered *in Ravna*. |
| | They travel *on a boat*. |
Temporal adverbials and other adverbials, however, either follow
verbs:
| Ravna | English |
|-------|---------|
| | Reva gets up *at 6* *every day*. |
| | He has studied this topic *since 5 years ago*. |
| | Ze worked *until midnight*. |
| | He went to the river *to fish*. |
| | Would you do that *for me*? |
## Exceptions
In a literary setting, especially in poetry, one can, and often breaks the rule
of word order to either shift emphasis or for rhyming.
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