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Sentence

te-ka-mo-lo

In English: time, cause, manner, place (order of adverbials)

A memory aid for the usual order of adverbials in the middle field: temporal (when?), kausal (why?), modal (how?), lokal (where?). English tends to put place before time; German does the opposite.

Example: Ich fahre morgen wegen des Regens mit dem Bus zur Schule.

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das Mittelfeld das Vorfeld

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