The sentence. Logical stress. Word order

A sentence («предложение») expresses a finished thought and ends with intonation, while a word combination only names something. In a sentence the most important word is stressed with the voice — this is the «логическое ударение». The speaker chooses it: in «Сегодня Дильшод читает в парке» the stress may fall on «сегодня», «Дильшод», «читает» or «в парке», and each time the shade of meaning changes. Russian word order is free: words move according to meaning because the case endings show the roles. In Uzbek the predicate always stands at the end of the sentence. In direct order the subject comes before the predicate, an agreeing attribute before the word it defines, a non-agreeing attribute after it, and a direct object after the verb. An unusual order — «обратный порядок слов» (inversion) — is used in speech and in literary text to stress something or to put the new information at the end: «В окне горел свет».