English is a pretty straight forward lang., all the words go in order
They go in order to you, because you are a native speaker of English. What if, however, my native language is one where the object comes first, then the verb, then the subject? To me, it would seem that English word order was completely out of whack.

Try to explain to a foreign learner the difference between:
If you had had some money, we could go to the movies.
If you would have had some money, we could go to the movies.

If you had some money, we could go to the movies.
If you were to have some money, we could go to the movies.