Time–manner–place
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.
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An example of this appositional ordering in German is:
Ich
I
fahre
drive
heute
today
mit
with
dem
the
Auto
car
nach
to
München.
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.
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