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"In the middle of the industrial warehouse stands what looks like a cannon from a spaceship, about five metres long and festooned in wires." (BBC Future website.)
"what looks like a cannon from a spaceship" is a subject of the above sentence. What is the grammatical term for such a word order in which the subject follows its predicator? Is it a postpostion (postponement) of the subject or a verb-subject inversion?
"what looks like a cannon from a spaceship" is a subject of the above sentence. What is the grammatical term for such a word order in which the subject follows its predicator? Is it a postpostion (postponement) of the subject or a verb-subject inversion?
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Anonymous the grammatical term for such a word order locative inversion This may be seen more easily in a shorter example. A large table stands in the kitchen. > In the kitchen stands a large table.
- Anonymous the grammatical term for such a word order locative inversion This may be seen more easily in a shorter example.
- A large table stands in the kitchen.
- > In the kitchen stands a large table.
- CJ
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Anonymousthe grammatical term for such a word orderlocative inversion
This may be seen more easily in a shorter example.
A large table stands in the kitchen. > In the kitchen stands a large table.
CJ
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