Time–manner–place

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For".Script error: No such module "Sidebar". 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:

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The temporal phrase – Script error: No such module "Lang". (when? – "today") – comes first, the manner – Script error: No such module "Lang". (how? – "by car") – is second, and the place – Script error: No such module "Lang". (where? – "to Munich") – is third.

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  1. ↑ the STOMPI rule
  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  4. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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