Off-topic side note: with German (and Dutch) word ordering the problem does not occur because a verb phrase is split into two separate parts. For example, using a Dutch/German word order (V2) this sentence becomes something like, "The

With the computer the weaker pupils can avoid more easily confrontation with their teacher. This sounds like German word order. English does not place adverbs between the verb and its object unless there are so many words in that portion of the

A few additional notes: Christian S.-W. wrote on 14 May 2004: 1.) How are you? Thank you, very fine. Here guess ... there a rule that "very" can't be used with "fine"? I'd say it was the word order. It should be