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Liveinjapan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Inversion

With the milestone comes a sobering reality already familiar to newspapers and television producers. 

I believe the above sentence is the inversion of the sentence below.


A sobering reality already familiar to newspapers and televisionproducers comes with the milestone.


Right?

Thanks.
  

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Yes, and a good inversion the original is.

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  • Yes, and a good inversion the original is.
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Yes, and a good inversion the original is.
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Thanks, MM.
By the way, what's the reason of inversion?

Is that because the adjectival phrase describing 'sobering reality' is a bit long?
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No, it's because the writer wants the main information in the position of focus-- the end of the sentence.
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Got it!
I've seen this type of inversion a couple of times, and now I understand their intentions.

Thanks, MM.
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And also, probably, because the preceding sentences spoke of whatever the milestone was. So the beginning of this sentence then refers back immediately to the preceding text, and the reader doesn't have to wait to the end of the sentence before he realizes its connection to previously stated facts.
CJ
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CalifJim And also, probably, because the preceding sentences spoke of whatever the milestone was.  So the beginning of this sentence then refers back immediately to the preceding text,
Understand. That is true in the article. Thanks, CJ.
CalifJim the reader doesn't have to wait to the end of the sentence before he realizes its connectio
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