{"id":73976,"date":"2020-04-14T05:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73976"},"modified":"2020-04-14T05:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:02:28","slug":"inversion-of-subject-and-verb-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/inversion-of-subject-and-verb-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Inversion Of Subject And Verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The normal order of words in a <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/analysis-of-a-complex-sentence\/\">sentence<\/a> is subject, verb and object. But sometimes certain <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/formation-of-adverbs-2\/\">adverbs<\/a> are put first and then this order is inverted, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/what-are-verbs\/\">verb<\/a> comes before the <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/subject-and-predicate\/\">subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Study the following sentences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The game\u00a0<b>had scarcely\u00a0<\/b>started when the rain came pouring down.<\/li>\n<li><b>Scarcely had the game\u00a0<\/b>started when the rain came pouring down.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>had hardly reached\u00a0<\/b>the station when the train arrived.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hardly had I reached\u00a0<\/b>the station when the train arrived.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>had never seen\u00a0<\/b>such a vast crowd.<\/li>\n<li><b>Never had I seen<\/b>\u00a0such a vast crowd.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>have seldom heard\u00a0<\/b>such a beautiful voice.<\/li>\n<li><b>Seldom have I heard\u00a0<\/b>such a beautiful voice.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>had hardly finished\u00a0<\/b>his lunch when someone knocked at the door.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hardly had he finished\u00a0<\/b>his lunch when someone knocked at the door.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Inversion of adverb particles<\/h3>\n<p>Adverb particles (e.g.\u00a0<b>up, down, in, out, on, off, away\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>back\u00a0<\/b>) are sometimes inverted for the sake of emphasis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They\u00a0<b>went off\u00a0<\/b>on a hunting trip.<\/li>\n<li><b>Off they went\u00a0<\/b>on a hunting trip.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>fell down\u00a0<\/b>from his horse, with a heavy thud.<\/li>\n<li><b>Down he fell<\/b>\u00a0from his horse, with a heavy thud.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>went up\u00a0<\/b>to the thirty-second floor of the hotel.<\/li>\n<li><b>Up he went\u00a0<\/b>to the thirty-second floor of the hotel.<\/li>\n<li>The bird\u00a0<b>flew away\u00a0<\/b>at the sound of the gun.<\/li>\n<li><b>Away the bird flew\u00a0<\/b>at the sound of the gun.<\/li>\n<li>They<b>\u00a0came out\u00a0<\/b>from their dirty hiding place.<\/li>\n<li><b>Out they came\u00a0<\/b>from their dirty hiding place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the examples given above the subjects are all <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/personal-pronouns\/\">personal pronouns<\/a> and they come between the particle and the verb. But if the subject is a noun or any pronoun other than a personal pronoun, it will come after the verb.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The soldier\u00a0<b>went off\u00a0<\/b>with the prisoners and booty.<\/li>\n<li><b>Off went the soldier\u00a0<\/b>with the prisoners and booty. (NOT Off the soldier went \u2026)<\/li>\n<li>The traitors\u00a0<b>fell down\u00a0<\/b>as the soldiers cut them.<\/li>\n<li><b>Down fell the traitors\u00a0<\/b>as the soldiers cut them.<\/li>\n<li>The national flag\u00a0<b>went up\u00a0<\/b>as the president pressed the button.<\/li>\n<li><b>Up went the national flag\u00a0<\/b>as the president pressed the button.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The normal order of words in a sentence is subject, verb and object. But sometimes certain adverbs are put first and then this order is inverted, and the verb comes before the subject. 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