Template:Short description Template:ForTemplate:Sidebar In linguistic typology, time–manner–place is a sentence structure that defines the order of adpositional phrases and adverbs in a sentence: "yesterday", "by car", "to the store". Japanese, Afrikaans,<ref>the STOMPI rule</ref> Dutch,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Mandarin, and German<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> use this structure.
An example of this appositional ordering in German is:
The temporal phrase – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (when? – "today") – comes first, the manner – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (how? – "by car") – is second, and the place – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (where? – "to Munich") – is third.