Timeline for Inversion with a prepositional phrase [duplicate]
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| Dec 24, 2022 at 15:31 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Inversions including locative and directional (PPs) are covered at Can you start a sentence with a preposition? | |
| Dec 24, 2022 at 15:08 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Edwin Ashworth JJJ Xanne jimm101 Chappo Hasn't Forgotten |
Duplicate of Can you explain the sentence structure 'In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit'? Why put the verb before the subject? | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 18:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 29, 2017 at 4:19 | comment | added | aparente001 | They're all fine; but I would not advise confronting your teacher. What would you gain by doing this? | |
| May 27, 2017 at 20:07 | comment | added | WS2 | @SlavaKnyazev There was an old lady who swallowed a fly; Perhaps she'll die... | |
| May 27, 2017 at 19:52 | answer | added | Araucaria - Him | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 27, 2017 at 19:01 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | Found the list finally - verbs governing there insertion - and stand is on it. www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/words/thereins.vbs.html | |
| May 27, 2017 at 18:56 | comment | added | BillJ | They are all correct. But I suspect your teacher doesn't like D because they think a preposition phrase cannot function as a locative complement in an inverted construction. But it can, locational complements like "A vase is on the table" ~ "On the table is a vase", and "A letter was on the table" ~ "On the table was a letter" are grammatically okay, though the non-inverted versions are the norm. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 18:51 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | You are dealing with a dummy there. As a dummy, there can be used with forms of be, and some similar verbs dealing with existence, such as exist, occur, lived, and, I reckon stood. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 18:49 | comment | added | Michael Login | List of 18 Types of Subject/Verb Inversion Look at the type 9: Most people remember there is and there are. BUT we must also remember that there are other verbs that we can use instead of is and are. The most common ones are exist, come, and go. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 18:18 | comment | added | Slava Knyazev | Can't put my finger on it but A and D sound kind of weird. Definitely not wrong but I never speak like that in casual conversation. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 18:13 | comment | added | RaceYouAnytime | Then you should challenge your teacher to provide a reason for this, because any expert on the English language would say that all of the provided options are acceptable. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 18:11 | comment | added | applepie192 | He didn't provide any explanations. He just said these two options were correct because "this is how it should be." | |
| May 27, 2017 at 18:06 | comment | added | RaceYouAnytime | Your teacher is mistaken. Options A, B, C, and D are all acceptable. If your teacher provided a reason for preferring B and C, we would need to know what he or she provided as reasoning in order to analyze further. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 18:00 | history | asked | applepie192 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |