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The sentence is more complicated than the original suggests.

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Can you explain the sentence structure 'In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit'? Why put the verb before the subject?

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edited Apr 26, 2013 at 23:55

Such as in theThe opening sentence, "In a hole in the ground there lived [verb] a hobbit [subject]." (via to The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien) reads,

In a hole in the ground there lived [verb] a hobbit [subject].

I wonder if there are accepted stylistic purposes for such a structure. When is it natural, and when is it unnatural?

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