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RegDwigнt
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Why put the verb before the subject?

Such as in the sentence, "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?

Mary Margaret
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