This is from my Chinese book: Basic Word Order in Chinese SUBJECT (who) - TIME (when) - PLACE (where) - PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE - VERB - OBJECT/PURPOSE (why) SUBJECT As in English, the Subject occurs at the beginning of the sentence. TIME (i.e. when some activity takes place, or when some state exists) English: at the end of the sentence: Mary was sick YESTERDAY. Chinese: after (or before) the Subject: Mary YESTERDAY was sick. PLACE (i.e. where some event occurs) English: after the predicate: John lost his money IN HIS OFFICE. Chinese: before the Verb: John IN HIS OFFICE lost his money. When a sentence contains both TIME and PLACE: English: PLACE - TIME: John lost his money IN HIS OFFICE YESTERDAY. Chinese: TIME - PLACE: John YESTERDAY IN HIS OFFICE lost his money. PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE (i.e. specifies with whom, with what, to whom, for whom, etc. - which qualify the manner or direction of some activity) English: follows the Verb (or Object): John studied French WITH A GERMAN. Chinese: precedes the Verb: John WITH A GERMAN studied French. When a sentence contains, TIME, PLACE, PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE and VERB: English: VERB - PP - PLACE - TIME: John STUDIED French WITH A GERMAN IN PARIS LAST YEAR. Chinese: TIME - PLACE - PP - VERB: John LAST YEAR IN PARIS WITH A GERMAN STUDIED French. OBJECT Although the Object normally occurs after the Verb, it is important to remember that the Object in Chinese has a great deal of freedom as regards its position in a sentence: it can appear at the very beginning of a sentence, before the Subject, directly before the Verb, or even deleted altogether. In fact, when both parties to a conversation are clear as to the context, Subjects and Objects are often deleted.

Hi Cielle, I am not sure if I understand your question but I will try to give you an example that I always use. The weather is very good today. Cuaca hari ini sangat bagus. 今天的天气太好了。 오늘 날씨 정말 좋아요 今日、天気がいいです You see that chinese/korean/japanese had similar structure: Today...weather...very good. Malay had a slightly different structure: Weather...today...very good. Good luck!

例如：我 喜欢 中国。 句子的一般基本语序：主语 （subject）+ 谓语 (predicate ) + 宾语（object） “我“ 是主语，”喜欢“是谓语，”中国“是宾语。

你吃饭了吗？have you eaten? we use this to greet people very often!