verb + subject

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Only in third world countries are you allowed to ride on top of a train.  I wonder what kind of sentence is this because we have subject "you" after the verb "are". Could you tell me the sentence structure? If it's tough to explain the sentence structure, at least, give me a few examples of the same kind.

Tanit · Accepted Answer

Hi,

Here are some (easy) pages about subject-verb inversion:

http://www.testmagic.com/grammar/explanations/inversion.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv34.shtml
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/ADVERBS7.cfm (at the very bottom of the page)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv342.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv166.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1535_questionanswer/page61.shtml

Here is something more difficult:
http://www.bartleby.com/116/303.html

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