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I’m interested in learning Mandarin and want to make progress without wasting time on methods that don’t help. My main goal is everyday conversations.

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Yesterday I encountered this on ImproveMandarin:

他出生在中国，但是不会说中文。

The location (在中国) is placed after the verb (出生) here, which goes against the rule that time, place, and manner should go before the verb in Chinese. Why is it okay to break this rule in this case?

Edit: What I'm taking away from the comments is that the standard rule (location before the verb) applies when the verb (and the rest of the sentence) describe something that happened while the subject was somehow (momentarily or permanently) already established in the given location. It does not apply when the location is the result or logical corollary of the verb. Therefore, 我住在上海, not 我在上海住. The latter would suggest that the "residing in Shanghai" happened while the person was already there, which is nonsense. The residing there is a complement, not a pre-established circumstance.

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