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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
The inversion
Responding to climate change and the threatening consequence is a very serious business, but it is not hopeless, nor are all foreseeable outcomes inevitable.
I'd like to whether "Responding to climate change and the threatening consequence" is fronted.
And I'd like to know why "inevitable" hasn't been fronted when "are" has been fronted because of "nor."
Thank you in advance for your help.
I'd like to whether "Responding to climate change and the threatening consequence" is fronted.
And I'd like to know why "inevitable" hasn't been fronted when "are" has been fronted because of "nor."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
park sang joon I'd like to whether "Responding to climate change and the threatening consequence" is fronted. No. It’s the subject of is a very serious business.
- park sang joon I'd like to whether "Responding to climate change and the threatening consequence" is fronted.
- No.
- It’s the subject of is a very serious business.
- " This isn’t a case of fronting either.
- The final clause involves subject-auxiliary inversion.
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park sang joonI'd like to whether "Responding to climate change and the threatening consequence" is fronted.No. It’s the subject of is a very serious business.
park sang joonAnd I'd like to know why "inevitable" hasn't been fronted when "are" has been fronted because of "nor."This isn’t a case of fronting either. Th
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Thank you, Aspara Gus, for your another kind answer. 
I have thought "not" is fronted along with a core adverb or complement.
I have thought "not" is fronted along with a core adverb or complement.
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park sang joonSo, I have thought even though "nor" isn't fronted, when there occurring inversion, a core adverb or complement should be fronted; am I wrong?Forget all that. This is no more than subject-verb inversion, the same kind found in main clause interrogatives. Compare Are all foreseeable outcomes inevitable?
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Thank you, Aspara Gus, for your continuing to support.
Then, I'd like to know whether I can take it that "inversion by not" dif
Then, I'd like to know whether I can take it that "inversion by not" dif
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I'm sorry for badgering you. 
A drain of a transistor is not connected to a ground.
=> Not connected to a ground is a drain
A drain of a transistor is not connected to a ground.
=> Not connected to a ground is a drain
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park sang joonI'm sorry for badgering you.Don’t be silly. You’re not.
park sang joonA drain of a transistor is not connected to a ground.=> Not connected to a ground is a drain of a transistor.Now I see. You’re very confused.
Again, nor are all foreseeable outcomes inevitable contains subject-auxiliary i
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But, I tend to ask until I come not to know nothing about a subject, so I'm always sorry for my helpers. 
This phen
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park sang joonThen, I'd like to know whether I can rephrase #1 to #2.No, you can’t. Not on its own can’t trigger inversion. It needs something to modify: Not until years later was I ready to settle down.
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