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Bob2010 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Word order of 'time'

1: He went to in 2010.

2: In 2010, he went to .



The element of ‘time’ is normally at the end of a sentence, just like Sentence #1. But in Sentence #2, the time is placed in the beginning of the sentence. Compared with ‘2010’in Sentence #1, ‘2010’in Sentence #2 is more important. Am I right? Thanks for your help.
  

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Bob2010 ‘2010’in Sentence #2 is more important. Am I right? Yes, especially if you put a comma after 2010.

— Cool Breeze

  • Bob2010 ‘2010’in Sentence #2 is more important.
  • Am I right?
  • Yes, especially if you put a comma after 2010.
  • The comma isn't really needed.
  • CB
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Bob2010‘2010’in Sentence #2 is more important. Am I right?
Yes, especially if you put a comma after 2010. The comma isn't really needed.

CB
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C.B., Thank you. I'm confused. Because Jacques Barzun says "the emphatic palces in a sentence are begining and end, the end being more so". According to this rule, the element of time in Sentence#1 should be more emphatic than that in Sentence #2.
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Dump Barzun! Emotion: smile Initial position is the most emphatic place for adverbs pretty much universally, even in languages not related to Engl
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