甲骨文动宾结构有动宾和宾动两式，宾语后置是其基本语序倾向。卜辞宾语不同的前置方式起于不同的动因，有标记前置主要归因于强调需要，无标记前置在某种程度上归因于原始语言较低的句法模式化水平。甲骨文宾语中占最大规模的不是客体宾语，而是附加体宾语，这是该时期宾语的典型特征，但西周汉语里客体已取代附加体在宾语中的典型地位。不过，西周汉语和尚书语言双宾语结构的语序仍有模式化水平较低的遗迹。

The verb-object construction in oracle inscriptions is primarily verb-object,but there is also the form of object-verb.With a mark,an object precedes its verb for the purpose of emphasis.In the case there is no mark,the fact of an object precedes its verb is due to a relatively low level of syntactic modelization in the original language.Typically,an object in oracle inscriptions is not a true object but an attachment object.However,a true object functioned as a typical object in the Western Zhou Dynasty.The word order of double-object construction in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Book of History (Shangshu) in Official Script of the Han Dynasty still have the trace of a relatively low modelization level.