Man forced to surrender his "offensive Star Trek license plate

Word order, English, relatively inflexible is. :laughing:

But more seriously, compared to (say) Russian, English word order is pretty inflexible. Chinese OTOH —while normally extremely inflexible in word order— can even handily flip between SVO and SOV* order without sounding Yoda-like. But in terms of overall word order flexibility, English is mid way between those extremes.

*Subject, Object and Verb