Talk:Place Manner Time
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[edit] Source and accuracy
I don't know about other English-speakers out there, but to me, Place-Time-Manner, including in the example cited in the article, seems more natural. Is there a source somewhere that supports the position taken by this article? Tomertalk 08:46, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
- isnt the time in front also acceptable, i.e. tomorrow, i'm going somewhere by car. I think in English you can usually rearrange these to some extent.
I'm convinced that you can do whatever you want in english, including splitting the verb across the sentance: I, by car, will, tomorrow, go to the store.
- The ordering in English is predominantly PMT. By taking one element of that ordering and placing it first, you can end up with a stress of that part, just as in your example, "tomorrow, I am going somewhere by car." giving the ordering as TSVPM. German while its order is TMP, allows for any of those elements to be moved to the beginning of the sentence. Basically, the ordering is not absolute to the sentence, but rather only their order relative to each other. --Puellanivis 01:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
