Editing Esperanto grammar (section)

===Clause order===
[[Coordinate conjunction|Coordinate clauses]] allow flexible word order, but tend to be [[iconicity|iconic]]. For example, in
:''la hundo ĉasis la katon kaj la kato fuĝis'' 'the dog chased the cat and the cat fled',
the inference is that the cat fled after the dog started to chase it, not that the dog chased a cat which was already fleeing. For the latter reading, the clause order would be reversed:
:''la kato fuĝis, kaj la hundo ĉasis ĝin'' 'the cat fled, and the dog chased it'
This distinction is lost in [[subordinate clause]]s such as the relative clauses in the previous section:
:''la hundo ĉasis la katon, kiu fuĝis'' 'the dog chased the cat(,) which fled'
In written English, a comma disambiguates the two readings, but both take a comma in Esperanto.

Non-relative subordinate clauses are similarly restricted. They follow the [[grammatical conjunction|conjunction]] ''ke'' 'that', as in,
:''Mi estas certa, ke vi havos brilan sukceson'' 'I am certain that you will have a brilliant success'.