WE have already taken up how inverted sentences depart from the normal sentence-verb-complement pattern (S-V/C) to put the ...

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IN last week's column, we looked at how inverted sentences allow us to abandon the normal subject-verb-complement (S-V/C) ...

That pattern is called inversion. It puts a prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, adjectival phrase, or participial phrase at the beginning of the sentence — ahead of its subject — then puts an ...

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