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Grammatical feature of adverb order For restrictions on freedom of speech in the United States, see Time, place, and manner.

Linguistic typology
Morphological
Analytic Isolating Synthetic Fusional Agglutinative Polysynthetic Oligosynthetic
Morphosyntactic
Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive Direct-inverse Ditransitive/Monotransitive Secundative Indirective Zero-marking Dependent-marking Double-marking Head-marking Null-subject Syntactic pivot Theta role
Word order
VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object Verb–object–subject OV languages Subject–object–verb Object–subject–verb Object–verb–subject V1 word order V2 word order OS word order Free word order Time–manner–place Place–manner–time
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In linguistic typology, time–manner–place is a sentence structure that defines the order of adpositional phrases and adverbs in a sentence: "yesterday", "by car", "to the store". Japanese, Afrikaans, Dutch, Mandarin, and German use this structure.

An example of this appositional ordering in German is:

Ich

fahre

drive

heute

today

mit

with

dem

the

Auto

car

nach

München.

Munich.

Ich fahre heute mit dem Auto nach München.

I drive today with the car to Munich.

I'm travelling to Munich by car today.

The temporal phrase – heute (when? – "today") – comes first, the manner – mit dem Auto (how? – "by car") – is second, and the place – nach München (where? – "to Munich") – is third.

References

the STOMPI rule
"Dutch Grammar • Manner: how?". www.dutchgrammar.com. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
"Word order: time, manner and place". Zichtbaar Nederlands. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
Hyde Flippo. "How to Put German Sentences in the Right Order". ThoughtCo. Retrieved 2021-10-03.

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