Me, too.
To me, “monkey banana eats” is harder to process because the monkey could be eating many things.
Easier is “monkey eats banana” because eat is only one thing and then we hear the final banana.
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Well then, if you believe the article extract, the computational load on your brain has to have been lightened allowing you to choose more efficient systems of communication which encourage the use of more complex grammatical structures. There’s no other explanation. /sarc
In Tagolog it depends if you want to emphsize the eating or the banana.
The verb changes as does the ng vs ang particle that designates s or object.
but you can use subject verb object by adding ay.
In English we change words.
The monkey is eating the banana.
the banana is being eaten vy the monkey.