Timeline for "pp. v. phrase" — Is this sentence pattern correct?
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| Sep 3, 2019 at 13:07 | comment | added | aparente001 | @BenjaminHarman - I hope you will put this in an answer. Perhaps add something about the missing subject in Declared are as SecondaryKey and the weird adverb placement in Enumerated are always all items. | |
| Sep 3, 2019 at 0:21 | comment | added | Benjamin Harman | When using the verb "to be" in any form, you can always transpose the subjects or transpose the subject and the predicate adjective, so you can say, "Written here is the information," just as properly as you can say, "The information is written here," and you can say, "Always enumerated are all items," just as properly as you can say, "All items are always enumerated." I mean, when you put a predicate adjective first, you can come off as sounding like Yoda from Star Wars, but it's not improper, nor does it change the meaning. | |
| Sep 3, 2019 at 0:05 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @KarlG English admits Blessed is he who expects nothing, for never shall he be disappointed. But that's less an illustration of declensional flexibility in word order than Latin's Homo sum, nihil me alienum puto or even Qui gladio ferit, gladio perit. | |
| Sep 2, 2019 at 19:53 | comment | added | KarlG | Highly inflected languages — Czech has 6 cases — can throw basically anything to the front. So can German with two fewer cases: Gescheiben wurde das Buch von einem österreichischen Shriftsteller, der … Written was the book by an Austrian author who… | |
| Sep 2, 2019 at 18:39 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | The second two examples are very bizarre, even for Yoda. But while I can change the word order of the third example to make it normal, I can't even do that with the second example. | |
| Sep 2, 2019 at 16:21 | comment | added | xiota | The first one seems fine to me. The other two are incomprehensible. Perhaps there's an underlying Czech structure they're trying to emulate. | |
| Sep 2, 2019 at 16:19 | comment | added | Bizhan | @xiota yes, I hear the first one a lot, the two other examples are from a wiki page written by one of our experts | |
| Sep 2, 2019 at 15:29 | comment | added | xiota | Are these examples of real usage you've encountered? | |
| Sep 2, 2019 at 14:46 | history | asked | Bizhan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |