When you begin learning German or Dutch, you will quickly notice that they have a different word order in sentences to English. In this way, English is actually closer to the North Germanic languages.
English (West Germanic)
I will go home
Subject, (1) verb, (2) verb, object
Dutch (West Germanic)
Norwegian (North Germanic)
Swedish (North Germanic)
Why did this happen to English? I speculate that the sentence order was influenced by Danish and Norwegian carried by waves of Viking invasions, then later by French carried by the Normans.
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