APART from extraposition, or deferring the subject to the tail end of a clause or sentence, there's still another sentence pattern that purposively disrupts the usual declarative form to achieve ...

IN last week's column, we looked at how inverted sentences allow us to abandon the normal subject-verb-complement (S-V/C) sequence so we can deliver the verb or its complement wherever we feel it can ...

Inversion happens in English for emphasis, dramatic purpose or formality. This type of inversion uses negative and limiting adverbs these are a group of adverbs which limit the meaning of a verb or ...

We use adverbial inversion for drama, emphasis or formality. Form: Move the adverb / adverbial phrase to the beginning of the sentence, and switch the subject and auxiliary: Normal word order: I had ...