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Inverted sentences as transitional devices
IN last week's column, we looked at how inverted sentences allow us to abandon the normal subject-verb-complement (S-V/C) sequence so we can deliver the verb or its complement wherever we feel it can ...
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Even more pragmatic uses of inversion
WE have already taken up how inverted sentences depart from the normal sentence-verb-complement pattern (S-V/C) to put the ...
English typically uses a strict SUBJECT VERB OBJECT (SVO) word order in simple sentences, as in Students (S) read (V) books (O). This SVO word order becomes altered in many other English sentence ...
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