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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Famous quotes containing the words inverted and/or sentence:
“Can they never tell
What is dragging them back, and how it will end? Not at night?
Not when the strangers come? Never, throughout
The whole hideous inverted childhood? Well,
We shall find out.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“The first sentence of every novel should be: “Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.” Meander if you want to get to town.”
—Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943)