Bahasa-bahasa SOP memiliki kecenderungan kuat menggunakan posposisi daripada preposisi, meletakkan verba bantu setelah verba tindakan, meletakkan frasa nominal genitif sebelum nomina, meletakkan nama sebelum gelar atau sebutan (misalnya "Tatik Ibu" dan "Jono Kopral", alih-alih "Ibu Tatik" dan "Kopral Jono"), dan memberi subordinator pada akhir klausa subordinat.
SOV languages have a strong tendency to use postpositions rather than prepositions, to place auxiliary verbs after the action verb, to place genitive noun phrases before the possessed noun, to place a name before a title or honorific ("James Uncle" and "Johnson Doctor" rather than "Uncle James" and "Doctor Johnson") and to have subordinators appear at the end of subordinate clauses.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix