and the "green": omdat ik gewerkt heb, where the past particle precedes the auxiliary verb, "because I worked have": like in German. In Dutch, the green word order is the most used in speech, and the red is the most used in writing, particularly in journalistic texts, but the green is also used in writing as is the red in speech. Unlike in English however adjectives and adverbs must precede the verb: ''dat het boek groen is'', "that the book green is". {|cellspacing="8" ||||| First field ||Left bracket||Central field||||||||Right bracket ||||Final field |- | Embedded clause||g.||||omdat|| ik|||het|| dan |||| gezien zou hebben |||| most common in the Netherlands |- |||||||because|| I|||it|| then |||| seen would have |- |||h.||||omdat|| ik|||het|| dan |||| zou gezien hebben |||| most common in Belgium |- |||||||because|| I|||it|| then |||| would seen have |- |||i.||||omdat|| ik|||het|| dan |||| zou hebben gezien |||| often used in writing in both countries, but common in speech as well, most common in Limburg |- |||||||because|| I|||it|| then |||| would have seen |- |||j.||||omdat|| ik|||het|| dan |||| gezien hebben zou ||||used in Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe, least common but used as well |- |||||||because|| I|||it|| then |||| seen have would|||| |- |||| |colspan=5|...'because then I would have seen it' |- |} V2 in Icelandic and Yiddish These languages freely allow V2 order in embedded clauses. Icelandic Two word-order patterns are largely similar to continental Scandinavian. However, in main clauses an extra slot is needed for when the front position is occupied by Það. In these clauses the subject follows any sentence adverbs. In embedded clauses, sentence adverbs follow the finite verb (an optional order in Faroese). {|cellspacing="8" ||main clauseembedded clause|||||Front— ||Finite verbConjunction||SubjectSubject||—Finite verb||Sentence adverbSentence adverb||Subject—||Non-finite verbNon-finite verb||ObjectObject||AdverbialAdverbial |- ||main clause||a.||Margir||höfðu||||||aldrei||||lokið||verkefninu. |- |||||Many||had||||||never||||finished||the assignment ||||...||'Many had never finished the assignment.' |- |||b.||Það||höfðu||||||aldrei||margir||lokið||verkefninu. |- |||||there||have||||||never||many||finished||the assignment||||...||'There were never many people who had finished the assignment.' |- ||||c.||Bókina||hefur||María||||ekki||||lesið. |- ||||||the book||has||Mary|||||not||||read||||||...||'Mary hasn't read the book.' |- ||embedded clause||d.||||hvort||María ||hefur||ekki||||lesið||bokina. |- ||||||||whether||Mary||has|| |not||||read||the book||||...||'whether Mary hasn't read the book' |- |} In more radical contrast with other Germanic languages, a third pattern exists for embedded clauses with the conjunction followed by the V2 order: front-finite verb-subject. {|cellspacing="8" |||||||Conjunction||Front(Topic adverbial)||Finite verb||Subject |- ||e.||Jón||efast||um að||á morgun||fari||María||snemma||á fætur. |- |||John||doubts||that||tomorrow||get||Mary||early||up||... ||'John doubts that Mary will get up early tomorrow.' |- ||||||||Conjunction||Front(Object)||Finite verb||Subject |- ||f.||Jón||harmar||að||þessa bók||skuli||ég||hafa||lesið. |- |||John||regrets||that||this book||shall||I||have||read||... ||'John regrets that I have read this book.' |} Yiddish