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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

In 1918 was..

Hello, I would just like to briefly ask you,the knowledgeable, a quick question:

Is this an acceptable sentence? I know that it is fairly peculiar and could be expressed with much more ease, but still.

e.g "In 1918 was their first show.."

Thanks in advance!
  

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" Perhaps, in the right context. Your sentence doesn't normally occur in English. This word order ( finite verb + subject ) is to some extent used in modern English: On the bed lay a dog that didn't look very menacing.

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  • " Perhaps, in the right context.
  • Your sentence doesn't normally occur in English.
  • This word order ( finite verb + subject ) is to some extent used in modern English: On the bed lay a dog that didn't look very menacing.
  • As English has very few inflections, this is a convenient way to bring a relative pronoun and its anteceden t next to each other in the above sentence.
  • Things are different in other Germanic languages.
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Anonymous"In 1918 was their first show.."

Perhaps, in the right context. Your sentence doesn't normally occur in English. This word order (finite verb + subject) is to some extent used in modern English:

On the bed
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