Inversion or Contraction
Hello, everyone?
I have following questions, about which I would like to invite your as many replies as possible;
A) There isn't any milk left.
B) There should be no space left.
1. Are above A) and B) a kind of inversion forms for the passive structure (be + p.p) triggered by adverb - 'there', or contracted forms due to abbreviation of 'which is' between the noun and p.p.(= left)?
If they are inversion forms, the original ones before inversion were as follows;
A) Any milk isn't left.
B) No space should be left.
2. Then, why have the following inversion forms not been applied?;
A) There isn't left any milk.
B) There should be left no space.
This structure is very difficult for me to show you my answer at first.
Thanks in advance,
Top answer
deepcosmos A) There isn't any milk left. B) There should be no space left. I'm not sure what you are getting after, deepcosmos, but that structure is commonly called 'existential "there"' (meaning that there isn't any there there, to quote CNN).
- deepcosmos A) There isn't any milk left.
- B) There should be no space left.
- I'm not sure what you are getting after, deepcosmos, but that structure is commonly called 'existential "there"' (meaning that there isn't any there there, to quote CNN).
- It is the native way to push important information toward the back of the sentence.
- deepcosmos A) Any milk isn't left.
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deepcosmosA) There isn't any milk left. B) There should be no space left.
I'm not sure what you are getting after, deepcosmos, but that structure is commonly called 'existential "there"' (meaning that there isn't any there there, to quote CNN). It is the native way to push important information toward the back of the sentence.
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