In the second place, the accumulativeness of the meanings of the Chinese words is manifest in the high stability of word orders and sentence patterns. The grammatical system of the Chinese language is established on the principle of “making meaning groups based on word order and collocating the meaning groups”. As is stated in the book “Appreciating literature Like Sculpting a Dragon: Sentences and Paragraphs”, words have appropriate locations in a sentence. “Put the words in proper order to form a sentence” means limitation. To limit the words is to collocate the words in their proper positions. A sentence consists of several words. When the words are collocated properly, they will give a message. Words not properly collocated properly they will give a messag
Words not properly collocated are like travelers in a strange place with nowhere to stay. When 
meaning groups are not properly collocated, they are drifting about and give no sure messages. Therefore, in making up a sentence, the positions of the words must not be reversed. In making up a paragraph, the sentences should be in the proper order. Since in the Chinese language the messages are conveyed mainly on the basis of proper collocation, so for thousands of years, in the Chinese language the subject is always placed before the predicate and the modifier is always placed before the word modified. Although in the ancient Chinese language the verb was not always placed before the object, yet there was no great inconformity.
Someone analyzed the grammar of the language in the Tortoise Shell Script. It was found that the word order of it is basically similar to that of the modern Chinese language. So, if a Chinese student knows the words and the grammar, he is fully capable of reading books written in different times in the history. This is another characteristic of the Chinese language. Mr . . . . Wang Li , a prominent linguist , illustrates this point with two quotations from “The Confucian Analects” : “子见南子，子路不说” (The Master visited Lady Nan , Zi Lu was displeased ) . “子在齐闻韶，三月不知肉味” (The Master hears splendid music in Qi Kingdom . For three months thereafter , he knows not the taste of meat ) . Wan Li holds that , although in these two examples the pronunciation and vocabulary have undergone substantial changes , for instance , “说” (pleased) has been replaced by “高兴” (pleased) , “闻” ( hear ) by “听见” (listen to ) , and “韶” (splendid music) is out of use , yet the grammar has not changed and the word order and sentence patterns remain the same in the modern Chinese language . The stability in the linguistics of the Chinese language mirrors the characteristic of accumulative development of this language.
