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English grammar is simple: concession adverbial clause[In this issue].
First, the content outline
2. Brief description of the content
(1) Definitions
In order to emphasize a certain component, some sentence components that should be placed after the subject are mentioned before the subject, such sentences are called inverted sentences.
The use of inverted sentences can play a variety of rhetorical effects, such as emphasizing the components, connecting the previous and the next, balancing the structure, rendering the atmosphere, and describing vividly.
(2) According to grammatical and rhetorical purposes
According to whether the inverted sentence is due to the need for grammatical structure adjustment or the need to achieve a certain rhetorical effect, it can be divided into interrogative sentences and other emphatic sentences.
Interrogative sentences in English are basically implemented by using auxiliary verbs in advance of the subject, such as:
General question: Do you like stories? / can you fly a kite? / are you a doctor?
Special interrogative sentence: where do you come from? / why did you go there on foot? / how is tony today?
Select the interrogative sentence: is he a postman or a milkman? / which do you prefer, tea or coffee?
Contradiction: You want to buy a new house, don't you? / few of them work on sundays, do they?
(3) According to whether it is completely reversed
According to the order of the sentence components, whether it is completely inverted or not, it can be divided into complete inversion and partial inversion.
The so-called complete inversion refers to the complete reversal of the order of the sentence components. Such as:
Natural Order: A boy came out
Completely upside down: out came a boy
The so-called partial inversion refers to the inversion caused by the auxiliary verb or modal verb in the predicate verb mentioning the beginning of the sentence, and the order of the other components remains unchanged. Such as:
Nature Word Order 1: He will never go there by himself
Invert 1: Never will he go there by himself
Nature Word Order 2: She Seldom Has Milk for Breakfast
Invert 2: Seldom does she h**e milk for breakfast
(4) According to the rhetorical purpose
For rhetorical purposes such as emphasis, this can be achieved by inverted sentences. Such as:
Emphasis added: Only in this way can we solve the problem(emphasis on adverbials).
Connecting the Past:- He never wants to h**e a plane -neither do i.
Balanced structure: here is the book you h**e been looking for(avoid being top-heavy).
Render atmosphere: big, black, and dark i arrived at the station at last.(The first three adjectives are meant to highlight the uncomfortable feeling of the station, and to express the author's uncomfortable feelings at the time by rendering the impression of the station.) )
Vividly: in rushed a man, who wore a mask with a gun in his hand(By mentioning the adverb in at the beginning of the sentence, the swiftness of the action is vividly emphasized, and the state of the person rushing in at that time is emphasized.)
(5) More inverted example sentences
For example: hardashe had worked, he still failed the french test.
Despite his efforts, he failed the French exam.
not until thendid we realize our mistakes.
It was only then that we realized our mistake.
littledoes he like any of her novels.
He didn't like her ** at all.
herecomes the bus.
The car is coming. 