In linguistic typology, Subject Object Verb (SOV) is the type of languages in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence appear or usually appear in that order. If English were SOV, then "Sam oranges ate" would be an ordinary sentence.

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An example in Japanese:
The markers は (wa) and を (o) are, respectively, topic and object markers for the words that precede them. Technically, the sentence can be translated a number of ways ("a box", "the boxes", etc), but this does not affect the SOV analysis.
Although Latin is an inflected language, the most usual word order is SOV. For example:
Again, there are multiple valid translations ("a slave", etc) that do not affect the overall analysis.