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Tarirotari Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Subject inversion. Can you check this?

In 1990, in a town called Tortosa was founded the Special Education School "Gloria S.", sharing different spaces and activities with the Centre for Education...

Does the inversion sound weird? Should I use an introductory 'it'?

Thanks
  

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" which shared different spaces and activities with the Centre for Education...

  • " which shared different spaces and activities with the Centre for Education...
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it sounds fine, however, I would change the comma and would use a relative clause:

In 1990, in a town called Tortosa, was founded the Special Education School "Gloria S." which shared different spaces and activities with the Centre for Education...
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rafaelinrioit sounds fine, however, I would change the comma and would use a relative clause:

In 1990, in a town called Tortosa, was founded the Special Education School "Gloria S." which shared different spaces and activities with the Centre for Education...


I would avoid the comma before 'was'. Never split the S V with a comma. The first comma i
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Hi,



How do two schools 'share different spaces'? It sounds odd. Perhaps you mean 'share various spaces'?



Clive
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English 1b3I would avoid the comma before 'was'. Never split the S V with a comma.
Please note that Special Education School "Gloria S." is the subject, and reread the sentence. After that, I think you'll have a different opinion about the comma and the S V structure.

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Yes, no S V splitted by the comma, because it's a subject inversion. In fact that was my original question, whether the inversion sounded right.

And yes, there's a typo in"Gloria S."

I can see the problem with "different" as well. I've changed it for various. That's was because my mothertongue was messing around.

Then, appart from the comma and the adjective "
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I"d suggest changing "sharing" to "which shared."

The inversion is not very natural here. It creates a "once up a time, there lived a young girl named Cinderella" feel to it, as though you are telling a fairy tale. Were you attempting to create that feeling?
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In fact no, but as I wanted to mention the name of the town and the year first, I came up with the inversion.

Then, do you suggest using an introductory it:
"it was founded the Special Education School Gloria S, which shared..."?

Or how would you put it? Because doesn't this other version also strike you as a little weird?

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