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Take a couple of common English sentences. "Postie kicks dog. Dog bites postie."
English sentences have a certain order. The most common sentences follow the subject, verb, object pattern.
In the first sentence, the postie is the subject. The subject is the actor, or the person doing the action.
If we changed the order around and wrote "Dog kicks postie", it means something different.
Why? No reason (except that the dog is now in the spot that belongs to the 'subject', so it's the dog doing the kicking).
That's just the way English works - subject, verb, object.
Now for the good news - it's the same in Indonesian (phew!)
Orang tendang anjing, anjing gigit orang (man kicks dog, dog bites man)
The verb is the 'doing' word - kicking, biting etc. The object is the thing at the end that has something done to it.
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Easy, right?
Now, let's go back and learn something very important about verbs.
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