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"Further adding to this idea is his excessive use of the word "must".

GPY · Accepted Answer

Yes, it's correct. The quotes in your post are mismatched, but I suppose that is not an issue in the original.

CalifJim · Answer

Anonymous "Further adding to this idea is his excessive use of the word "must".

Think of it as

His excessive use of the word "must" further adds to this idea.
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It's quite an unusual grammatical pattern. It features inversion, but the original that seems to be inverted does not exist independently as a grammatical sentence with the same meaning.

?His excessive use of the word "must" is futher adding to this idea.

Other examples:

Topping off the wedding cake was a plastic bride and groom.
(A plastic bride and groom topped off the wedding cake.)
Sealing off the chamber is a sturdy steel door.
(A sturdy steel door seals off the chamber.)
Joining in the dissent was Justice Kagan.
(Justice Kagan joined in the dissent.)

What's interesting is that a participle clause, not a gerund, occupies the position of subject, thus "proving" that it is not the true subject of the sentence and that some kind of inversion is present. It's quite similar to locative inversion (Beside the door was a little table).

CJ

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