WE have already taken up how inverted sentences depart from the normal sentence-verb-complement pattern (S-V/C) to put the verb or its complement wherever it can do its work best in the sentence, and ...

APART from extraposition, or deferring the subject to the tail end of a clause or sentence, there's still another sentence pattern that purposively disrupts the usual declarative form to achieve ...

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 ...

We use adverbial inversion for drama, emphasis or formality. Form: Move the adverb / adverbial phrase to the beginning of the sentence, and switch the subject and auxiliary: Normal word order: I had ...