Timeline for What is the subject of this sentence 'after "by" comes a verb, and then comes "ing"'?
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| Feb 10, 2020 at 22:07 | comment | added | Colin Fine | Yes, it's one kind of inversion. It's not very common in everyday speech: much more in storytelling. | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 22:05 | comment | added | peterpanai | Thank you so much! Is this a kind of "Inverted sentence"? | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 22:02 | vote | accept | peterpanai | ||
| Feb 10, 2020 at 18:07 | comment | added | Colin Fine | @peterpanai: yes, it does. | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 1:34 | comment | added | peterpanai | Thanks for your answer. Does "on the table" plays the role of "an adverbial phrase of place" in the rule? | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 1:00 | history | answered | Colin Fine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |