Anonymous  +  141714 Mon, 26 Sep 05 12:04 AM Can you please tell me the subject and verbs of these sentences? Please explain the reasons, because I am very confused. 1. Here is the station 2. Here are the tickets. Anonymous Verbs, Questions

	Philip  +  141751 Mon, 26 Sep 05 02:10 AM  Anonymous wrote: Can you please tell me the subject and verbs of these sentences? Please explain the reasons, because I am very confused. 1. Here is the station  = The station is here. 2. Here are the tickets. = The tickets are here. I'm not sure how to categorize the 'here is' construction, but the equivalents are correct. Philip Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Veteran Member 9,017 At reise er at leve! - H. C. Andersen Verbs, Constructions

	Philip  +  147690 Fri, 14 Oct 05 05:13 AM  Anonymous wrote: How do you write a sentence that is in inverted order? Is the station here? / Are the tickets here? Philip

	Yankee  +  475115 Sun, 10 Feb 08 04:56 AM Did you want to know whether that sentence could be inverted, Anon? If so, yes.  However, it would tend to sound rather literary: Happy is Jomaira. Yankee Joined on Sat, Apr 15 2006 Connecticut, USA Veteran Member 6,682 Amy "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

	Yankee  +  475136 Sun, 10 Feb 08 07:30 AM Interestingly, if you replace the nouns with pronouns in the original sentences, inversion is not possible: 1. Here it is. (it = the station) 2. Here they are.  (they = the tickets) Yankee Nouns, Pronouns