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No, muttman. That's surface level talk. English has things no other Germanic languages have and lack things every Germanic languages have. Take, for instance, how you phrase a question. Both Germanic and Swedish can phrase it like "Have you a book?" Only in English do you phrase it like "Do you have a book?" For another instance, the tenses. English is the only Germanic language that have the continuous tenses. Every other Germanic language does not distinguish between an action that happens or an action that is happening. For another instance, grammatical genders. Swedish and German both have those, but English has lost them entirely save for some occasions where the definite article "the" gets spelt differently.
And the word order thing. That's a convergence evolution that both North Germanic languages and English have, but it's an aberration when you compare English to its fellow West Germanic languages. In German the word order is flexible. "Ich liebe dich" and "Dich liebe ich" mean the same. That's why I said English is a weird croele muttspeak. It was a West Germanic language that was raped in the ass by Latin and North Germanic, producing something unrecognizable to everyone.