How do you properly order words (subject, verb, object, adjectives, adverbs, places, etc.) in the Spanish language overall and with specific examples?

Question

For example,

How would I put the following in order:

Yesterday, I went to the ice cream parlor to submit a resume for a job interview after applying there a few months ago because they had not gotten back to me yet.

Answer 1

Subject and Verb

So what are a subject, verb, and object? The subject is person or thing that does of the action. This action is known as the verb.

Since English is our shared language, we will use examples in English to help us understand the Spanish.

1. Look at the sentence below. Based on what we have said so far, which word do you think is the subject?

Marisol speaks French.

Marisol

Which word do you think is the verb?

Marisol speaks French.

speaks

So, Marisol is the subject and speaks is the verb.

But is it like this in Spanish? Yes! It is exactly the same as shown in the example below, in which Marisol (Marisol) is still the subject and first word in the sentence and habla (speaks) is still the verb and second word in the sentence. Thus, the word order of the subject and verb are the same in Spanish and English.

Example:

English: Marisol speaks French.

Spanish: Marisol habla francés.

If we substitute the person's name, Marisol, Ella (She), the word order in English as Spanish does not change and the meaning stays the same.

English: She speaks French.

Spanish: Ella habla francés.

To summarize, in both English and Spanish, the subject and the verb are right next to each other. That is because both languages are considered SVO. That means that all the most important parts of a sentence (Subject, Verb, and Object) come in the same order. Here are some more examples of SVO:

Marisol drives a car.

Olivia wants a cookie.

I want a cookie

You want a cookie.

She wants a cookie.

He wants a cookie.

The cat wants a cookie.

Object

Now let's talk about the object. Like English, the action word usually has a word that comes immediately after it called the object, which is receiving the action of the verb. Few other words that are not essential to understanding the sentence can separate the verb and the object. Below, the object is francés and comes after habla. In the English, French comes after speaks.

Marisol habla francés.

Marisol speaks French.

SVO

S=Marisol

V=habla/speaks

O= francés/French

But, what if you wanted to say Marisol speaks it, it being French? In that case, Spanish puts lo (it) before habla and English puts it after speaks.

Marisol lo habla.

Marisol speaks it.

Answer 2

Hello! 

For the most part, Spanish and English share the sentence structure of Subject-Verb-Object. “Ellos toman café.” Or “They drink coffee” For more complex sentences with adjectives and adverbs, it differs from English. In Spanish, adjectives generally go after the nouns they modify. “The red apple” vs. “La Manzana Roja” (note that Spanish also has nouns that are labeled as masculine or feminine depending on if they end in the letter “o” or “a” and the article “La,” which is used for feminine nouns, will be used. If the noun is masculine, you would use the article “El”).

This adjective rule does not apply when the adjective is used is a determiner. Determiners can be quantitative/enumerative (few, many, one, six-pocos, muchos, uno, seis ), possessive (mine, his-mi, su), and demonstrative (this, that-Esto, ese).

Adverbs can basically go anywhere in the sentence, but like in English, create a clearer sentence when they are near the verb that they modify.

In terms of places, which I assume you are referring to “ice cream parlor?” In this instance it is a prepositional phrase “to the ice cream parlor-a la neveria,” and can therefore be put after the object of the sentence “I went-Yo fui” Otherwise, places are indirect objects and can be places anywhere after the direct object.

“Ayer, fui a la neveria a enviar un resume para una entrevista de trabajo después de aplicar allí hace unos meses porque aún no me habían respondido.”

I hope that helps!