Questions tagged [hyperbaton]
Hyperbaton is any deliberate and dramatic departure from standard word order.
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Is any inversion of the usual syntactic word order considered anastrophe/hyperbaton?
Is any inversion of the usual syntactic word order considered anastrophe/hyperbaton?
Sometimes we come across inversions in ordinary writing that need not be necessarily literary in tone— can we apply ...
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Is it permitted to put the subject after a copula instead of before it?
For instance, can one say “Smart is the Eastern system”?
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'Gone are the days when ... ' Is this expression often used?
Is the expression 'gone are the days when ...' often used in everyday English?
Or is it something you can see only in books?
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How to explain this sentence:"The summer of 2012 was the warmest in 170 years, records show." [closed]
The summer of 2012 was the warmest in 170 years, records show.
I encountered this sentence in a passage from the SAT Practice Test #1, being totally confused. Are there inversion and omission in this ...
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Object-subject-verb order in "X does not a Y make" [duplicate]
I've seen the phrase "... does not an honest man make" used, and wanted to know wheather this usage constitutes an idiom or sentance pattern.
Some example usages from the internet:
A long ...
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Is this a correct way to use hyperbaton?
Soon this man found himself in the clutches of an evil witch. Mean, full of hatred hell-bent she was on finding and killing him no matter the cost.
Does the latter part of the sentence above make ...
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Difference between "She is hot" and "Hot she is"? [closed]
Is there any difference on these two usages "She is hot" and "Hot she is" ??
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Can I use the adjective as the first word?
Is it okay if I rearrange the sentence
The apple on the table was green
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The green apple was on the table
to put the adjective in front, as the first word, like
Green, was the apple on ...
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Why is this a hyperbaton?
According to Wikipedia, this is a hyperbaton:
"Whom god wishes to destroy, he first makes mad" — Euripides
Is that right, and if so, why? My native language is Swedish, but I speak English ...
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Unusual word order in a sentence [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is “xxxx doth not a yyyy make” considered valid English?
Proper usage/origin of the generic phrase “[action phrase] does not a [noun] make”
“Two films don't a revolution ...
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Is this correct: "Aloof the hallow things shall always be"?
I'm writing a poem, and I wondered if, to a native speaker, this would sound awkward (or grammatically incorrect):
Aloof the hallow things shall always be.
As a variant of
The hallow things ...
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What's it called when you make an adjective post-positive? [duplicate]
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Why do some adjectives follow the nouns they modify?
In English, adjectives usually precede the nouns they describe, as in "organic carrots".
However, in some cases "normal" ...
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Why do some adjectives follow the nouns they modify?
Right now I can only think of one instance in which this regularly occurs. The adjective proper is sometimes placed after the noun it modifies, e.g:
Reptilia: A class of cold-blooded oviparous or ...
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Is "The City Beautiful" (Orlando's motto) grammatically correct?
I have always wondered why the motto of the City of Orlando, FL (USA) is worded as The City Beautiful instead of The Beautiful City:
Is The City Beautiful grammatically correct? If so, do you have ...
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Why is "xxxx doth not a yyyy make" considered valid English?
Reading doth not a writer make.
This sounds all wrong so why it is acceptable to use?
The word order looks to be all out sequence (Object-Subject-Verb).
It should be "reading does not make you a ...
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Is employing hyperbaton correct in English?
I've often seen the sentence structure "____ does not a ____ make" which I've now discovered is called hyperbaton.
the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or ...
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