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Maj Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

Inversion

Is the following sentence correct?

Never, in my whole life, have I been so frightened.
  

Top answer

Yes. It's emphatic (and rhetoric).

— Raul

  • Yes.
  • It's emphatic (and rhetoric).
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Yes. It's emphatic (and rhetoric).
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Because if used colloquially, it would be considered as having excessive use of ornamentation or "bombastic".
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Really? Would it imply pompous feelings?
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Sorry, sorry... you're right. There's no rhetoric here. I double-checked the sentence and it's just emphatic.

Pompous feelings? That's really funny.
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