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Modalverben – Questions on special auxiliary verbs ‘dürfen’, ‘können’, ‘mögen’, ‘müssen’, ‘sollen’, ‘wollen’

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Is putting an adverbial after the non-finite verb okay?

Neither sentence is wrong. German word order is rather flexible, and while there is a tendency to have the second part of a split verb at the end, it isn't always the case. Possible reasons for pullin …
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Nebensatz without verb at the last position (with modal verbs). Why?

It is a special case: The sentence contains an Ersatzinfinitiv of a modal verb (namely, können instead of gekonnt) and the auxiliary verb haben. Such a construction requires that the auxiliary is move …
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