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Sentence Structure

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Time Manner Place

What are adverbs and adverbial phrases?

Categories of adverbs / adverbial phrases: time, manner and place and the order in which they go in a sentence

What to do if a sentence contains more than one of one type of phrase

The story of Little Red Riding Hood

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Ich esse heute Abend Pizza mit Freunden im Restaurant.

Ich habe samstags einen Job in einer Buchandlung.

Ich fahre im Juli mit meiner Schule nach Deutschland.

when? how?

when?

when? how?

where?

where?

where?

Adverbial phrases give information about when (the time), how (the manner) and where (the place) the action happens.

If you have two or more adverbial phrases in a sentence they go in this order: time then manner then place.

direct object

direct object

subject & verb

Adverbs and adverbial phrases

subject & verb

subject & verb

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Time, manner or place?

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If there are two or more adverbial phrases referring to time or place in a sentence, the least specific goes before the more specific one.

Examples of less specific: jedes Jahr

obendieses Jahr

draußennächsten Winter

in Spanien

Examples of more specific:im Dezember

in meinem Schlafzimmerim Frühlingim Garten

am 6. Januaran der Küste

How specific?

Sentences do not all have exactly one time, one manner and one place phrase.

What do these sets of phrases mean together?Write German sentences containing each set.

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in Deutschland / auf dem Land

in Deutschland auf dem Land

im Garten / bei den Nachbarnbei den Nachbarn

im Garten

vor der Tür / draußendraußen

vor der Tür

im August / diesen Sommerdiesen Sommer

im Augustjeden Winter /

zu Weihnachtenjeden Winter zu

Weihnachtenim Herbst /

nächstes Jahrnächstes Jahr

im Herbst

Put the two adverbial phrases in the correct order (i.e. less specific followed by more specific).

How specific?

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