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Dutch Word Order, Sentence Structure

New 2025 'Shorts' Building Sentences Program:
1. Subject - Verb - 2. Subject - Verb - Object
- 3. Subject - Verb - Complement - 4. Adjectives, Adverbs and Nouns
5A. Past Participles and Verb Infinitives at the End of the Line
5B. Past Participles, Infinitives, and the use of 'te'
6A. Questions - 6B. Query Words
7. Negative Statements - nee, niet, geen - and: ja, wel
8. The Imperative: Commands, Orders, Instructions, Suggestions

Word Order 1
Basic Sentences - The Complement - The Object - The Indirect Object - Combining Object and Complement - Simple Questions

Word Order 2
The Placement of Adjectives and Nouns

Word Order 3
Verbs at The End of The Sentence - More Questions - Query Words - Commands, Orders and Suggestions - Specifying Time and Place - Negative Statements

Word Order 4
Verb Before Subject - Word Order in the Subordinate Clause - Advanced: Complications in the Subordinate Clause: Complement and/or Object - After Conjunction 'Dat' - The Active Verb and Secondary Verbs - Splitting Verbs Re-Attaching

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