What characterized Old English word order compared to Modern English, and what syntactic changes occurred during the Early Modern English period?

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OE maintained strict SVO order identical to Modern English; EModE introduced VSO and OSV patterns borrowed from Latin literary style.

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OE used exclusively SOV order like modern German; EModE standardized VSO order for all sentence types before settling on modern SVO.

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OE had no fixed word order requirements; EModE imposed rigid SVO order for all clause types without exceptions.

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OE had flexible word order (SVO, SOV, VSO, OSV) due to its inflectional system; by EModE, SVO became regular in declarative clauses, though greater flexibility remained than today, particularly with pronoun objects and for emphasis.

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