NOUNS AND PRONOUNS - Word oredr: place and time

         S      V     Place         Time
(a) Ann moved to Paris in 1998
    We went to a movie yesterday.
      S      V         O         P           T
(b) We bought a house in Miami in 1995
In typical English sentence, “place” comes before “time”, as in (a).
Incorrect: Ann moved in 1998 to Paris
S-V-O-P-T = Subject-Verb-Object-Place-Time
S-V-O-P-T = a Basic English structure
      Time      S      V       Place
(c) In 1998, Ann moved to Paris
(d) Yesterday we went to a movie
Expressions of time can also come at the beginning of a sentence, as in (c) and (d). A time phrase at the beginning of the sentence is often followed by a comma, as in (c).