The sentence in African-American vernacular English

When we say that AA VE shares its fundamental sentence structure with other varieties of English, we mean that the essential clause and phrase constituents within the sentence are the same. For example, the word order for AA VE canonical sentences (i.e., the most basic sentences) is subjectverb-object (SVO), just as it is in other varieties of English. Other languages use SVO too, but some use SOY or VSO word order part or all of the time.