Outside of poetic writing and certain syntactic alternations like topicalization, the word order of Modern English is Subject-Verb-Object. From Wordnik.com. [2009 October « Motivated Grammar] Reference
In addition, the terms "topic," "topicalization," and "focus" are used in very different ways in the linguistic literature. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Hebrew Poetry] Reference
As linguists themselves note (see Appendix), definitions are not yet available which are stringent enough to allow tagging for topic, topicalization, and focus according to anything like a straightforward algorithm. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Hebrew Poetry] Reference
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