Inversion is the syntactic phenomenon of intentional changing word-order of the initial sentence model.

Classification. There are two basically different types of inversion: gram­matical and stylistic. Grammatical inversion is devoid of stylistic information. It is just a technical means of forming different types of questions. Stylistic inversion is such a change of word-order which gives logical stress or emo­tional colouring to the language units placed in an unusual syntactic position.

Stylistic inversion is typical of the predicate, predicative and all the sec­ondary parts of the sentence:

In came Jack, (predicate)

Insolent Connor's conduct was. (predicative)

Little chances Benny had. (direct object)

To her family Martha gives all her time, (indirect object).

A horribl e death Douglas died, (cognate object)

This is a letter congratulatory, (attribute)

To the disco Hilda went, (adverbial modifier)

 

 

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