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User_gary

#408671 Fri, 24 Aug 07 08:23 AM

Only in third world countries are you allowed to ride on top of a train.

I wonder what kind of sentence is this because we have subject "you" after the verb "are". Could you tell me the sentence structure?

If it's tough to explain the sentence structure, at least, give me a few examples of the same kind.

User_gary

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Verbs, Sentence structures

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Tanit

#408698 Fri, 24 Aug 07 09:58 AM

Hi,

Here are some (easy) pages about subject-verb inversion:

http://www.testmagic.com/grammar/explanations/inversion.htm
http://esl.about.com/od/advancedgrammar/a/inversion.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv34.shtml
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/ADVERBS7.cfm (at the very bottom of the page)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv342.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv166.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1535_questionanswer/page61.shtml

Here is something more difficult:
http://www.bartleby.com/116/303.html