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Hallo, I just posted a question about adverbs and TMP, but only after I had signed out did I remember why I was looking up word order anyway. (everything takes twice as long when one is so easily distracted).

I heard in a German programme, someone say Ich möchte auch etwas trinken. Then later someone else said Möchten Sie etwas bei mir essen? I do not understand why the etwas in the question comes before bei mir, but in the statement comes after auch. I thought auch was an adverb and bei mir an adverbial phrase. Can you explain the word order when using etwas?

Also, when one uses einige, is this considered a pronoun? If I said they were picking apples and gave us some, would I say "und sie gaben uns einige" or "und sie gaben einige uns". The first sounds righter to me, but I think I read that when you have two pronouns, the accusative comes first.

Thank you so much for your help. It is always a great relief to listen to the RG audio and not worry too much about the grammar, but when i try to say something that is not identical to the audio I always get tied up in grammar.

Carolinne