Timeline for How is this sentence inverted or changed when the adverbal phrase **through every window** is moved at the beggining of the sentence?
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| Jan 6, 2017 at 11:22 | comment | added | BillJ | Here comes the bus does not oppose my explanation. It does not contain subject-auxiliary inversion, though it is a special kind of subject-dependent inversion – special because it is not replaceable in context by the non-inverted The bus comes here. The same applies to There goes my last dollar; it is not replaceable in context by My last dollar goes there. It is important that you distinguish subject-auxiliary inversion and the kind of inversion that has preposing of adjuncts (adverbials) | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 10:54 | comment | added | BillJ | No, it is wrong to say *Through every window is light coming in and *Through every window is coming in the light. There is no fronted element in either of those examples to trigger subject-auxiliary inversion. The subject and verb should remain uninverted: Through every window light is coming in. Preposing an adjunct (adverbial) does not trigger subject-auxiliary inversion. | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 10:45 | comment | added | BillJ | I’ll answer your 3 questions in order. Subject-auxiliary inversion occurs with questions, for example Have you done it?; Did you finish it?. It also occurs when certain elements are put in front position. Negatives are one very obvious type of element that trigger subject-auxiliary inversion when fronted, e.g., Never have I felt so alone the inversion is triggered by the negative word “never”. And in So bad was the pain that I fainted, and Only later did I realise my mistake, the fronting of “so bad” and “only later” have triggered the inversion. | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 5:51 | comment | added | Smart Humanism | @BillJ But, as an example sentence that oppose your explanation, "Here comes the bus." is inverted sentence with an adverb preposed to the beginning of it. And in school, I might have been taught that "Here comes the bus." is wring and "Here the bus comes." is wrong. Would I ask you help me get out of this confusion? | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 5:48 | comment | added | Smart Humanism | @BillJ Then, is there no way to do inversion in the sentence with "Through every window" preposed to the beginning? Are All of "Through every window is light coming in.", "Through every window is coming in the light." wrong? | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 8:15 | comment | added | Smart Humanism | @BillJ I am so grateful that you got my point and gave me a comment. Thank you. Then, what are the cases like that trigger subject-auxiliary inversion? Can I ask you for some explanations about those? | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 18:41 | answer | added | Deepika Fernando | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 10, 2016 at 9:18 | comment | added | BillJ | Preposing an adjunct like "through every window" does not trigger subject-auxiliary inversion, so "Through every window light is coming in" is right. | |
| Dec 10, 2016 at 8:30 | history | asked | Smart Humanism | CC BY-SA 3.0 |