Inverted Sentence

Inverted Sentence

An inverted sentence is a sentence in which the predicate (verb) comes before the subject (noun).

Down the street lived the man and his wife without anyone suspecting that they were really spies for a foreign power.

Because there's no object following the verb, the noun phrase after the verb "lived" can be decoded as subject without any problem.

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