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10.3. Verb-first/second: special cases
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This section discusses a number of special cases concerning the placement of finite verbs, which have in common that they pose (sometimes apparent) problems for the view that verb-second is an obligatory and exclusive property of Dutch main clauses. Section 10.3.1 starts by discussing a class of main clauses in which verb-second fails to apply. Section 10.3.2 continues with a number of embedded adverbial clauses in which verb-second does apply. We will not discuss here the use of clauses introduced by the complementizer dat'that' or of'if' as independent utterances such as given in (104); for this, we refer the reader to Section 5.1.7.

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a. Dat je dat kan!
  that  you  that  can
  'It is amazing that you can do that!'
b. En of ik dat wil!
  and  whether  that  want
  'I certainly want that!'
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