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d. 

Heaven from

'From the heaven'

e. 

Mountain on

'On the mountain'

f. 

Town to

'To the town'

2.6.8 Word order

The central fact of NIA syntax is the final position of the verb (Masica 1991: 332).
Most of the Indo-Aryan languages possess SOV (subject, object and verb) order, so

does Bhojpuri. Verb is in final position in this language.

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a. NP+VP (Intransitive) (S+V)

 --

Sita laugh-PST-FEM-3SG

'Sita Laughed.'
b. NP+NP+VP (Transitive) (S+O+V)

 --

I rice eat-PST-1
'I ate rice.'

c. NP+NP+NP+VP (Ditransitive) (S+O1+O2+V)

 ---

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