Time–manner–place

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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,[1] Dutch,[2][3] Mandarin, and German[4] use this structure.

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.

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 phraseheute (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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