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As to this I d like to put my two cents When English retained cases explicitly the subject noun and the complement noun linked by a linking verb were both in nominative cases So I Nom am the king Nom If we change the king into a pronoun it should be I am it Nom in the normal word order However in...

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I think no inversion DO first and S V then is needed in this case as there is no DO I would say The more forests disappear is right my teachers used to tell me the more you read the more you learn which is a similar construction the more S V however I ve found on the Internet some examples like...

1 A theology professor said Churches today grow usually by biological growth or by transfer growth In Acts however the growth was conversion growth for the church was just behinning its work 2 A theology professor said Churches today usually grow by biological growth or by transfer growth In Acts...

1 A theology professor said Churches today grow usually by biological growth or by transfer growth In Acts however the growth was conversion growth for the church was just behinning its work 2 A theology professor said Churches today usually grow by biological growth or by transfer growth In Acts...

Hello growinup Well given that Subject Verb Object is the standard word order in English I would allow inversion to include all these examples Original sentence he eats live chickens 1 Does he eat live chickens 2 Live chickens he eats 3 Live chickens eats he 4 Eats he live chickens Though the...

Hello Mr P I think the linguistic term for that is rather topicalization topicalization noun linguistics the placement of the topic at the beginning of a sentence as in That movie you couldn t pay me to see Those girls they giggle when they see me topicalization inversion noun An interchange of...

Please help me with these two questions First I ve heard the following expression Never in all my life have I felt so humiliated Is it not supposed that the speaker should have said following the correct word order in a sentence Never in all my life I have felt so humiliated Second Could you...

The sentence We saw the man on the hill with a telescope can be analyzed in the following way The standard simple sentce structure Subject verb object complement Adverbial Qualification reference wren martiin Here the man becomes Object The advective phrase is always placed immediate to the noun...

Hello Xavier you re right of course Communication is one of the tasks of language The Grammar is late Language follows special patterns word order inflection cases conjugation etc language has to follow those patterns as without them communication wouldn t be possible The only reason why you...