Time Manner Place
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In linguistic typology, Time Manner Place states the general order of adpositional phrases in a language's sentences: "yesterday by car to the store". It is common among SOV languages. Japanese (which is SOV) and German (which is fundamentally SOV but uses V2 in certain circumstances, especially main clauses) belong to this category. The other common order for adpositional phrases is Place Manner Time, which is exemplified by English and French.
An example in German is:
| Ich | fahre | heute | mit | dem | Auto | nach | München. |
| I | drive | today | with | the | car | to | Munich. |
| I'm driving to Munich [by car] today. | |||||||
The temporal phrase heute (="today") comes first, the manner mit dem Auto (="by car") is second, and the place, nach München (="to Munich") is third.
(One way to remember the order in German is the mnemonic acronym ZAP: Zeit (time), Art (manner), Platz (place).) Another, in English, is the "acronym" TeMPo.
English and French only use this order when the time is mentioned before the verb, which is commonly the case when time, manner, and place are all mentioned: "Demain (time), je vais en auto (manner) au magasin (place)", which means literally "Tomorrow, I go by car to the shop".
