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02-15-2009, 07:45 AM

To reiterate something CaptainThunder said above, Japanese basically has no required sentence structure. The particles tell you everything you need to know about the sentence, and the verb can go anywhere.

Now, technically, in "correct" writing, you'd likely put the verb at the end of the sentence. But it's definitely not a required thing in Japanese. For example,

食べたよ、そのさしみを!
Ate EXCLAM, that sashimi-OBJ!

This is a perfectly cromulent verbal phrase. The "correct" written form would be
そのさしみを食べたよ!
that sashimi-OBJ ate EXCLAM!
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