Because Czech uses grammatical case to convey word function in a sentence (instead of relying on word order, as English does), its word order is flexible. As a pro-drop language, in Czech an intransitive sentence can consist of only a verb; information about its subject is encoded in the verb. Enclitics (primarily auxiliary verbs and pronouns) must appear in the second syntactic slot of a sentence, after the first stressed unit. The first slot must contain a subject and object, a main form of a verb, an adverb or a conjunction (except for the light conjunctions a, "and", i, "and even" or ale, "but"). COUNT 5
QSN1 Czech's word order is flexible because it uses what to convey word function in a sentence? ANS1 grammatical case QSN2 In Czech an intransitive sentence may consist of only what? ANS2 a verb QSN3 What is encoded about a subject in verbs in Czech? ANS3 information QSN4 What is a hard to pronounce and remember term meaning primarily auxiliary verbs and pronouns? ANS4 Enclitics QSN5 Where must enclitics appear in a sentence? ANS5 second syntactic slot