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Tapas Mandal Posted 13 years ago
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"Gone are the days" - is this sentence grammatically correct?

Gone are the days when people used to stand and wait in queues for long hours for booking train tickets at the counters. "Gone are the days" - what kind of sentence is it? is it grammatically correct? (because, the verb Gone has been used as a subject here.)
  

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Tapas Mandal "Gone are the days" - what kind of sentence is it? is it grammatically correct? ) 'Gone' is not the subject; 'days' is the subject.

— Mister Micawber

  • Tapas Mandal "Gone are the days" - what kind of sentence is it?
  • is it grammatically correct?
  • ) 'Gone' is not the subject; 'days' is the subject.
  • We merely have S-V inversion for stylistic effect.
  • This is the same sentence: The days are gone when people used to stand and wait in queues for long hours for booking train tickets at the counters.
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Tapas Mandal"Gone are the days" - what kind of sentence is it? is it grammatically correct? (because, the verb Gone has been used as a subject here.)
'Gone' is not the subject; 'days' is the subject. We merely have S-V inversion for stylistic effect. This is the same sentence:

The days are gone when people used to stand and wait in queues
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Mister MicawberWe merely have S-V inversion for stylistic effect.
So, that means we use it just to make the the sentence more beautiful or we talk like that so that it sounds good only, even knowing that it is grammatically incorrect?
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It is not grammatically incorrect. Inversion is an alternative in a number of situations.
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Thank you Mister. It would be a great help for me if you can at least give two-three such examples.
Thanks in advance.
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Never have I seen such a mess!
Under the spreading chestnut tree sat the village smithy.
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Your sentence isn't wrong grammatically speaking. But from a fluency point of view, and semantically, is is better to say " Gone are the day of people waiting in line/ queue for hours for .........(whatever)"
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typo Emotion: wink. . . . Gone are the days
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