Added to that
"His concern is that low unemployment means Britain's economy has little spare capacity and, accordingly, faces upward inflation pressure. Added to that are moves by other major central banks to rein in loose monetary policy, which could also push inflation higher by weakening the pound further." (Reuters.)
Is "Added to that" a subject in the clause "Added to that are moves by other major central banks to rein in loose monetary policy"? Or is it a syntactically 'derived' form where the complement, here "Added to that", is fronted and followed by copular "are" and the subject "moves..."?
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It is an inversion of "moves by other major central banks ... are added to that". In this case the uninverted form would not read as well (would not have the desired emphasis).
- It is an inversion of "moves by other major central banks ...
- are added to that".
- In this case the uninverted form would not read as well (would not have the desired emphasis).
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It is an inversion of "moves by other major central banks ... are added to that". In this case the uninverted form would not read as well (would not have the desired emphasis).
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