Time–manner–place


In linguistic typology, time–manner–place is a general order of adpositional phrases in a language's sentences: "yesterday", "by car", "to the store". Japanese, Afrikaans, Dutch, Mandarin, and German belong to this category.
An example of this appositional ordering in German is:
The temporal phrase – heute – comes first, the manner – mit dem Auto – is second, and the place – nach München – is third.
One way to remember the order in German is the mnemonic acronym ZAP: Zeit, Art, Platz. Another, in English, is the "acronym" TeMPo. It is a subset of the system called TeKaMoLo in German, from Latin: Temporal, Kausal, Modal, Local, or time-cause-manner-place
English and French use this order only when the time is mentioned before the verb, which is commonly the case when time, manner, and place are all mentioned.