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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary
Inversion
"A particular joy of football is the infinite number of ways there are to get the spherical thing into the rectangular thing."
(The Guardian.)
I understand that the complement the infinite number of ways there are to get the spherical thing into the rectangular thing has an inversion in that that "the infinitive number of ways" (a complement inside the sentence complement) is put before the subject "there", not after the verb "are" in the sentence above.
Am I right?
(The Guardian.)
I understand that the complement the infinite number of ways there are to get the spherical thing into the rectangular thing has an inversion in that that "the infinitive number of ways" (a complement inside the sentence complement) is put before the subject "there", not after the verb "are" in the sentence above.
Am I right?
Top answer
It is not inversion but a relative clause: the infinite number of ways ( that ) there are
- It is not inversion but a relative clause: the infinite number of ways ( that ) there are
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It is not inversion but a relative clause:
the infinite number of ways (that) there are
the infinite number of ways (that) there are
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GPYIt is not inversion but a relative clause:the infinite number of ways (that) there areThank you for the reply.
I also took such a usage under consideration but was unconvinced by "there" put between implied "that" and the verb "are".
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GPYJack built the housethe house (that) Jack builtthere are an infinite number of waysthe infinite number of ways (that) there areThank you for the reply.
Is "there" a dummy or locative one in the infinite number of ways (that) there are?
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AnonymousIs "there" a dummy or locative one in the infinite number of ways (that) there are?It's a dummy "there", used to state the existence of something in the expression "there are ...".
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