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Optimus Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Inversion
0 01 font 00 A. To these causes may our disasters be attributed. 02 br
00 B. To these causes may every one of the disasters be attributed that have come upon us. 02 font 02 br
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00 Hello. According to Fowler, sentence A 01 b 00 02 b 00 violates the rule of balance inversion, namely, the subject should stand absolutely at the end. He says if the subject were "every one of the disasters that have come upon us" instead, the inversion is satisfactory. 02 br
00 So is B the correctly inverted sentence? 02 br
02 br
00 He also says the following inversion is wrong: 02 br
01 font 00 D. Much deeper down than the history of the human race must we go to find the beginnings of these connections. 02 font 02 br
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00 He states that "if the verb is compound, the subject must be long as well as emphatic" and that in the above sentence,"we do not mend matters much by substituting 01 i 00 lie 02 i 00 for 01 i 00 must we go to find 02 i 00 ." Could someone explain what he's saying with 01 i 00 lie 02 i 00 and 01 i 00 must we go to find 02 i 00 ? 02 br
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00 B. To these causes may every one of the disasters be attributed that have come upon us. 02 font 02 br
02 br
00 Hello. According to Fowler, sentence A 01 b 00 02 b 00 violates the rule of balance inversion, namely, the subject should stand absolutely at the end. He says if the subject were "every one of the disasters that have come upon us" instead, the inversion is satisfactory. 02 br
00 So is B the correctly inverted sentence? 02 br
02 br
00 He also says the following inversion is wrong: 02 br
01 font 00 D. Much deeper down than the history of the human race must we go to find the beginnings of these connections. 02 font 02 br
02 br
00 He states that "if the verb is compound, the subject must be long as well as emphatic" and that in the above sentence,"we do not mend matters much by substituting 01 i 00 lie 02 i 00 for 01 i 00 must we go to find 02 i 00 ." Could someone explain what he's saying with 01 i 00 lie 02 i 00 and 01 i 00 must we go to find 02 i 00 ? 02 br
02 br
00 Thank you 0-
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0 Well, Fowler is a little out of date now, and I imagine that many of his suggested inversions would be considered overprecious, but: 02 br 02 br 00 1-- B is not a correct correction of A. Fowler is saying that A should read ' 01 i 00 To these causes may be attributed 01 b 00 our disasters 02 b 02 i 00 '-- thus placing the subject, 01 i 00 disasters 02 i 00 , at the absolute end. g.
- 0 Well, Fowler is a little out of date now, and I imagine that many of his suggested inversions would be considered overprecious, but: 02 br 02 br 00 1-- B is not a correct correction of A.
- Fowler is saying that A should read ' 01 i 00 To these causes may be attributed 01 b 00 our disasters 02 b 02 i 00 '-- thus placing the subject, 01 i 00 disasters 02 i 00 , at the absolute end.
- g.
- go 02 i 00 -- 01 i 00 to find 02 i 00 is just a verb complement).
- However, what he wants to say (I think) is that in D, 01 i 00 must we go to find 02 i 00 is wrong, and equally wrong would be 01 i 00 must lie 02 i 00 .
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0 Well, Fowler is a little out of date now, and I imagine that many of his suggested inversions would be considered overprecious, but: 02 br
02 br
00 1-- B is not a correct correction of A. Fowler is saying that A should read ' 01 i 00 To these causes may be attributed 01 b 00 our disasters 02 b 02 i 00 '-- thus placing the subject, 01 i 00 di
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00 1-- B is not a correct correction of A. Fowler is saying that A should read ' 01 i 00 To these causes may be attributed 01 b 00 our disasters 02 b 02 i 00 '-- thus placing the subject, 01 i 00 di
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