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I was wondering which was correct:
Hör auf damit!
or
Hör damit auf!
The Wikipedia page about German sentence structure says:
The separable prefix, if there is one, remains at its old place, separated.
So, I would think that the second one is correct.
However, when I do a Google search, both appear correct since they both pop up as suggestions.
Are they both correct, or did some people just type it into Google wrong?
It is the same as with regular sentences. The unmarked case is that the detachable prefix goes to the end of the sentence:
Hör damit auf.
Like the regular sentence:
Ich höre damit auf.
As with regular sentences, constituents can be right-dislocated to the slot after the end verb/detachable prefix. That position is called Nachfeld in German grammar:
Hör auf damit.
Like the regular sentence:
Ich höre auf damit.
