This is important, so you don't sound like a バカ外人, accents aside, if you go to Japan and speak Japanese with an English sentence structure.
To make a proper sentence in Japanese, use this Mnemonic.
TTPOV
It's pronounced exactly as it looks. You'll never forget it.
It Stands for Time/Topic, Place, Object, Verb
Time and Topic can be interchanged depending on the sentence.
So the order of the words in a sentence would be
1. The Time/Topic
2. The Time/Topic
3. The Place
4. The Object
5. The Verb
Take any grammatically correct sentence and look at it. It should follow this pattern.
The same rules apply when you are making a sentence.
Also, if you sentence does not have one of the five, just skip over it and move onto the next one.
Example:
English TL: I'm using the computer right now
Literal TL: Now, I'm computer is using
Romaji: Ima, boku ha pasukon wo tsukatteimasu
いま、ぼくはパスコンをつかっています
In Japanese, and the literal TL, it follows the proper sentence structure
いま (Time)、ぼく (topic) は パスコン (object )を つかっています (Verb)
There was no "place", so I just skipped over it and went to the next one.
This goes for any not used.
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