Hi Prema, is Tamil of the object-subject-verb typological system? It seems like it from the example you gave. I actually have two native languages, the other being Chinese. Chinese is similiar to English in typology, but is unique in having no inflection. Linguists call Chinese "Analytic" for this very reason.

For example, "I am going to go home" translated word for word is "wo jiang yao hui jia". Each word is different and "going" doesn't even vaguely resemble "to go". Also, although Chinese words are not strictly monosyllabic, each syllable is a meaningful unit or "morpheme". Hence the word for train is "huo che", which can literally mean "fire car".

Hope that was interesting

Dar