Timeline for How does the TeKaMoLo rule apply in this sentence?
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| Jun 10, 2022 at 17:13 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Dec 24, 2021 at 13:37 | comment | added | RDBury | @Quant007: I think that would actually be the default phrasing. German uses word order for emphasis and to give some phrases more importance than others. German also likes to single out "new information" by putting it later in the sentence. These subtleties are difficult to master though, hence the "never wrong" TeKaMoLo phrasing and similar rules of thumb are taught to foreign students. | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 13:23 | comment | added | user49002 | Could we construct a sentence like this: "Du kannst ein Auto in der Werkstatt am Ende der Straße mieten."? | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 13:15 | comment | added | RDBury | To put it another way, TeKaMoLo applies to adverbial phrases, but am Ende der Straße modifies the noun der Werkstatt, not the verb. so TeKaMoLo does not apply here. In general TeKaMoLo is guideline rather than a rule, and its main advantage for learners is that it's never incorrect. Unfortunately many German courses teach it a grammatical rule, and this causes much confusion when learners discover that it's not followed by German speakers outside the classroom. | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 12:29 | history | answered | guidot♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |