Inverted_sentence
Inverted sentence
Style of sentence construction
An inverted sentence is a sentence in a normally subject-first language in which the predicate (verb) comes before the subject (noun).
- Down the street lived the man and his wife without anyone suspecting that they were really spies for a foreign power.
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Because there is no object following the verb, the noun phrase after the verb "lived" can be decoded as subject without any problem. In English, such an inversion often introduces do-support.