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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
inverted sentence
Kino stirred in his sleep and his wife’s eyes opened in the darkness. Then Kino awakened and lay with his ears alert. Then from the corner of his cottage came a sound so soft that it might have been simply a thought, a little stealthy movement, a touch of a foot on earth, the almost inaudible sound of controlled breathing.
Q) The original of the inverted second sentence is thought to be this.
A sound (which was) so soft came from the corner of his cottage that it might have been simply a thought, a little stealthy movement, a touch of a foot on earth, the almost inaudible sound of controlled breathing.
Am I right?
Q2) What about this inverted version?
Then from the corner of his cottage did a sound come so soft that ....
Q) The original of the inverted second sentence is thought to be this.
A sound (which was) so soft came from the corner of his cottage that it might have been simply a thought, a little stealthy movement, a touch of a foot on earth, the almost inaudible sound of controlled breathing.
Am I right?
Q2) What about this inverted version?
Then from the corner of his cottage did a sound come so soft that ....
Top answer
1. " connection. It seems better to cast the uninverted form as: Then a sound so soft that it might have been simply a thought, a little stealthy movement, a touch of a foot on earth, the almost inaudible sound of controlled breathing, came from the corner of his cottage.
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- " connection.
- It seems better to cast the uninverted form as: Then a sound so soft that it might have been simply a thought, a little stealthy movement, a touch of a foot on earth, the almost inaudible sound of controlled breathing, came from the corner of his cottage.
- The long distance between "sound" and "came" is probably one of the reasons why the writer moved it to the front.
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1. Your version has disturbed the "so soft that it ..." connection. It seems better to cast the uninverted form as:
Then a sound so soft that it might have been simply a thought, a little stealthy movement, a touch of a foot on earth, the almost inaudible sound of controlled breathing, came from the corner of his cottage.
The long distance between "sound" and "came" is pro
Then a sound so soft that it might have been simply a thought, a little stealthy movement, a touch of a foot on earth, the almost inaudible sound of controlled breathing, came from the corner of his cottage.
The long distance between "sound" and "came" is pro
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moon7296Q) The original of the inverted second sentence is thought to be this.A sound (which was) so soft came from the corner of his cottage that it might have been simply a thought, a little stealthy movement, a touch of a foot on earth, the almost inaudible sound of controlled breathing.Am I right?See GPY's reply.
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