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§ 2. Inverted order of words.

The order of words in which the subject is placed after the predicate is called inverted order or inversion.

Haven't you any family? (Da Mattrier)

§ 3. Certain types of sentences require the inverted order of words. These are:

  1. Interrogative sentences. In most of them the inversion is jar-NUai_as only part of the predicate is placed before the subject^ viz. The auxiliary bTTnbdal verb.

Where did they find her? (Dn Maurier) Can I show you my library? (Greene)

The whole predicate is placed before the subject when it is ex-press"eT"by""1he verb to be or to have.

Is he at home?

Have you many friends?

Note. — No inversion is used when the interjjagativeword is the subject .oilhe sentence* or an attribute to the subject: rr777> is in the room? Who speaks English here'> What photos are lying on the table?

  1. Sentences introduced by there.

There is nothing marvellous in what Jam is going to relate. (Dickens)

Into the lane where he sat there opened three or four garden gates, (Diikens)

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Compound sentences, their second part beginning with so or neither.

"Most of these military men are good shots,' observed Mr. Snod-grass, calmly; "but so are you, ain't you?1' (Dickens) Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R., escaped unhurt, so did three of. Hietr sons. (Daily Worker)

4. Simple exclamatory sentences expressing wish. Be it so!

Gentle reader, may you never feel what 1 then felt. May your eyes never shed such stormy, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. (Ch. Bronte)

§ 4. The inverted order of words is widely used when a word or a group of words ts.. put in a prominent positionL i. e. when it either opens the sentence or is \vilhdrau^rtoTfie~end of the sen­tence so as to produce a greater eHect. So word order often be­comes a means of emphasis, thus acquiring a stylistic func tion.

In this case inversion is not due to the structure of the sentence but to the author's wish to produce a certain stylistic effect.

1. Inversion occurs when an adverbial modifier opens the sen­tence.

Here we must distinguish the following cases: (a; Acherbial modifiers expressed by a phrase or phrases open the sentence, and the subject often has a lengthy modifier.

In an open barouche, the horses of which had been taken out, stood a stout old gentleman in a blue coat and bright buttons. (Dickens)

On a chair — a shiny leather chair displaying its horsehair through a hole in the top left hand corner — stood a black despatch case. (Galsworthy)

  1. An adverbial modifier with a negative meaning opens the sentence. Here belong such adverbial modifiers as: in vain, never, little, etc. In this case the auxiliary do must be used if the pred­icate does not contain either an auxiliary or a modal verb.

In vain did the eager Luffey and the enthusiastic strugglers

do all that skill and experience could suggest. (Dickens) Little had 1 dreamed, when I pressed my face longingly against Miss Minus's low greenish window-panes, that I would so soon have the honour to be her guest. (Cronin) Never before and never since, have I known such peace, such a sense of tranquil happiness. (Cronin)

  1. Adverbial nodifiers expressed by such adverbs as sj). thus. now. then, etc. placed at the head of the sentence, if the subject ia eApressed by a noun.

So wore the day away. (London)

Thus spoke Mr. Pickwick edging himself as near as possible to the portmanteau. (Ditkens) Now was the moment to act.

Then across the evening stillness, broke a blood-curdling yelp,

and Montmorency left the boat. (Jerome)

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