—La ringrazio (I thank you).
—Verrete? (Will you come?)
—Sono stanco (I am tired).
—Non mi sento bene oggi (I don't feel well to-day).
—Com'è andata? (How did it turn out?)
—Dico la verità (I will tell you all about it).
—Siamo contentissimi (We are delighted).
—Vi saluto (I bid you good-by).
—Vado a casa (I am going home).
—Lampeggia (It is lightening).
—M'impose silenzio (He told me to say nothing).
—Ascolto (I am listening).
Series V
(Elliptical sentences where the predicate is understood)
—Silence!
—Why all this noise?
—After me, the deluge!
—The sooner the better!
—Good luck to you, sir!
—What nasty weather!
—What an attractive school!
—O for a calm, a thankful heart!
—A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
—Away with him!
—Fire! Fire!
—Here, here, quick!
—Honor to the brave!
Series VI
(Elliptical sentences where the direct object is understood: incomplete predication)
—They drove away.
—He spends like a millionaire.
—He drinks like a fish.
—The farmer's boy had just milked.
—Do you understand?
—The cavalry spurred across the field at full speed.
—Did you see?
—The child did not hear.
Series VII
(Sentences with numerous modifiers and of increased difficulty)
—The poor boy came home that night, all tired out, covered with mud from head to foot, with his coat torn and with a black and blue lump on his forehead.
—Ethel hurried home as fast as possible.
—We heard the clatter of horse's hoofs on the pavement.
—And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm.
—The beautiful child with the black hair is here on the lawn.
—And yet through the gloom and the night
The fate of a nation was riding that night.
—The woman walked along in front of me with the child in her arms.
—The girl's voice sounded distinctly above all the others.
—To-morrow I shall come to town on foot.
—He spent the summer every year with his parents in their old home on the mountain side.
—That evening the old house was more lonely than ever.
—They are very busy this morning.
—I never did such a thing in my life!
—Every now and then a group of people hurriedly crossed the street.
—The doctor whispered something into the Mayor's ear.
—Just then some one knocked at the door.
—Here I am back again at my work.
—Mary had a little lamb
With fleece as white as snow.
The Order of Elements in the Sentence: Permutations
Rules:
The English (the Italian) language tends to follow the direct order in prose, inversion being very rare.