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Word order in English sentences
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Time and place: when and where

What German speakers tend to find most difficult is where to put time adverbials (e.g. yesterday, every Wednesday, all the time) because this is where English and German are most different from one another. Where you put the time adverbial depends on a lot of things such as meaning, grammatical structure and length. If the adverbial is one word, such as "never", "sometimes" or "always", it tends to go in the medial position. That means between the subject and the verb or after the auxiliary or the verb to be:

• I never go to the cinema on Mondays.
• I have always liked French films.
• I am often in the Ritzy on Fridays.

If the adverbial is a noun phrase (like "every Wednesday", "all the time"), it is almost always to be found in the final position. The same is true for preposition phrases (like "in the mornings", "at the end of the century"). Exceptions occur when the speaker wants to emphasize the time e.g. Nearly every night, he goes out. (He goes out a lot.)

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