a Positional relation, or WORD ORDER, refers to the sequential arrangement of words in a language a If the words in a sentence fail to occur in a fixed order required by the convention of a language, one tends to produce an utterance either ungrammaticalor nonsensical at all.◼ Positional relation, or WORD ORDER, refers to the sequential arrangement of words in a language. ◼ If the words in a sentence fail to occur in a fixed order required by the convention of a language, one tends to produce an utterance either ungrammatical or nonsensical at all