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An inverted sentence is a sentence in a normally subject-first language in which the predicate (verb) comes before the subject (noun).
Down the street lived the man and his wife without anyone suspecting that they were really spies for a foreign power.
Because there is no object following the verb, the noun phrase after the verb "lived" can be decoded as subject without any problem.
In English, such an inversion often introduces do-support.
An invertedsentence is a sentence in a normally subject-first language in which the predicate (verb) comes before the subject (noun). Down the street...
The inverted question mark, ¿, and inverted exclamation mark, ¡, are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses...
she heard the news. Furthermore, one might also describe a cleft sentence as inverted. That is to say, it has its dependent clause in front of the main...
is U+00BF ¿ INVERTED QUESTION MARK (¿). Galician also uses the inverted opening question mark, though usually only in long sentences or in cases...
Deicide who branded an inverted cross onto his forehead. Former Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward suggested that the use of an inverted cross on the inner gatefold...
in Spanish, Galician and Asturian—which use inverted question and exclamation marks—is called an "inverted interrobang" or a gnaborretni (interrobang spelled...
... (inverted form equivalent to the above). If you should be young, ... (equivalent to "If you are young") Should you be young, ... (inverted form equivalent...
EXCLAMATION MARK U+A71E ꜞ MODIFIER LETTER RAISED INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK U+A71F ꜟ MODIFIER LETTER LOW INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK U+FE15 ︕ PRESENTATION FORM...
imaginative concept where Earth's topography is inverted, see Inverted Earth. Inverted World (The Inverted World in some editions) is a 1974 science fiction...
Inverse or invert may refer to: Inverse (logic), a type of conditional sentence which is an immediate inference made from another conditional sentence Additive...
non-inverted quotative sentence, but not in an invertedsentence. They can, however, occur to the immediate left of the subject in an invertedsentence:...
verb are inverted) He wants (some book). (declarative) What book does he want? (interrogative: what book is fronted, subject and verb are inverted, using...
or person, forming in essence a stative verb form. Additionally, invertedsentence order may be used for emphasis. (Many East Asian languages use stative...
single up inverted commas are used) Inverted commas are also used to mark proper nouns that could be mistaken for common nouns, such as at sentence beginnings...
but nonequivalent common terms in the other language, as well as invertingsentence meaning. Novelty websites like Bad Translator and Translation Party...
invertedsentences and question tags as described above. Because the word there can also be a deictic adverb (meaning "at/to that place"), a sentence...
write; They made him write; I saw you write), including in negated and invertedsentences formed using do-support (He doesn't write; Did you write?). Preceded...
procedure. The inverted index is filled via a merge or rebuild. A rebuild is similar to a merge but first deletes the contents of the inverted index. The...
form of questions – it may also indicate a sentence's pragmatic function. In Spanish an additional inverted mark is placed at the beginning: ¿Cómo está...
particles. Cross-linguistically, word order variation (the so-called "invertedsentences") is one of the main syntactic devices used to convey specific information...
must be hidden, make him Jewish and have him speak in semi-Yiddish invertedsentence order. You know. Like Yoda. ("So a murderer that makes me?") Readers...
Spain) use an inverted question mark ⟨¿⟩ at the beginning of a question and the normal question mark at the end, as well as an inverted exclamation mark...
in invertedsentences and question tags as described above. Because the word there can also be a deictic adverb (meaning "at that place"), a sentence like...
one or two sentences each form their own paragraph. Journalists usually describe the organization or structure of a news story as an inverted pyramid. The...
have occurred: the normal subject has inverted to a post-verb position, and the predicative nominal has inverted to the pre-verb position. The verb is...
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