Japanese grammar structure order


Everything I have known about Japanese grammar structure till now is S-O-V.
Japanese is S-O-V language. But what's about adj? Adverb?... Something like
that. Of couse that I did some research about this. But all I found is this:

> Sentence Topic, Time, Location, Subject, Indirect Object, Direct Object,
> Verb. [[Source](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese/Grammar)]

But I understand nothing at all. I mean it isn't answer my question: the order
of adj, adverb... Is it standing before noun or after, what happen if I got 2
adj... Do you guys know it? Please teach me about it. It terribly confuses me.

And thank you for reading my... query?




Adjectives (and relative clauses for that matter) are always _before_ the noun
they modify. I don't know if there are rules for the ordering of adjective
groups. Maybe [Wikipedia](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_grammar) can
tell you more.

As for the `I understand nothing at all` part:

  * Wikipedia can help you on "sentence topic";
  * "time" refers to time expressions such as "three hours ago", "yesterday", "in a week" etc.;
  * "location" means an expression indicating the place where an action takes place, such as "here", "in a church", "near the riverbank", "underneath a tree" etc.;
  * "Subject" is the subject, which is roughly the doer of the action, but there are exceptions, most notably the verb `aru` (~to have), where the subject is the topic and what is possesed is the subject; `aru` is lit. to exist, so `As for (possessor), (possessed thing) exists` is the idea behind it, reminding me of the Latin use of the dative in this case;
  * "Indirect object" is a second object some verbs have, e.g. "give", where it is the person you give something; and "direct object" is the "object" in SOV.
  * "Verb" is the sentence's verb.

I honestly didn't know place expressions were confined to before the subject;
and time expressions as well. I'm rather inclined to think that this is
flexible, and the only real rule is that the verb ends the sentence - for
which, unfortunately, you can find exceptions in songs.

Also, I don't know whether to include complements of motion (from somewhere,
to swhr., through swhr.) in "location" or not.

I will take look in the cited source and see what it says. Or maybe I'll just
wait for comments here.

**Update:** the cited reference states that:

> Japanese is flexible in terms of word-order due to use of particles.
> Sentences, however, generally have the following structure:
>

>> Sentence Topic, Time, Location, Subject, Indirect Object, Direct Object,
Verb.

Also, it does not appear (most incredibly in my opinion) to have anything
about the adjective-noun ordering in a location you'd expect to find it in. I
might consider reporting this to the wikibooks community. Somebody definitely
should.

