This chapter has given a bird’s-eye view of the organization of the clause in standard Dutch. We have seen that the clause can be divided into three parts based on the position of the complementizer/verbs. The first part is the clause-initial position preceding the complementizer/finite verb in second position, which is the landing site for interrogative and topicalized phrases. The second is the postverbal field following the clause-final verbs, where we find a wide variety of constituents with the exception of nominal arguments, complementives, and manner adverbs. The remaining part of the clause is the middle field between the complementizer/finite verb in second position and the verbs in clause-final position. We have seen that the word order in this part of the clause is relatively free and is determined by a variety of movement rules, often (incorrectly) lumped together as scrambling. The types of movement introduced here will be discussed in more detail in Chapter 10 through Chapter 13.