Strange thing about inversion

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hello,
Please look at the sentence below:
1.Featured at the Henry Ford Museum IS an exhibit of antique cars dating from 1865.
This sentence has the construction Inversion but as far as I know only preposition can be put at the beginning of the sentence as in ‘‘At the Henry Ford Museum is an exhibit of antique cars dating from 1865’’ Please explain for me in which context we should use this grammar construction.
Thanks in advance !!! :smiley:

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‘‘At the Henry Ford Museum is an exhibit of antique cars dating from 1865’’
‘‘There is an exhibit of antique cars dating from 1865 at the Henry Ford Museum.’’
“An exhibit of antique cars dating from 1865 is there at the Henry Ford Museum,” The above are the ways in which you can write that. Placement of adverbs follow certain norms-time> h>swadv>v>swadv>place>time.
Sw - single word adverbs of manner. The three usual adverbs which get a palce in a sentence are adverbs of manner, place and time.
For more refer to a school grammar book for easily understandable explanations.
nanunana

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Many types of words and phrases can be put at the front of the sentence, including adverbs, prepositions and even clauses. Some cause inversion, some don’t. Some cause inversion obligatorily, and some cause it optionally. Both of these sentences are correct:
“Featured at the Henry Ford Museum is an exhibit of antique cars dating from 1865.”
‘‘At the Henry Ford Museum is an exhibit of antique cars dating from 1865.’’

Anytime you want to.

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  1. X is featured at Y.
  2. At Y, X is featured.
  3. Featured at Y is X.

For me, #1 is the neutral form. In #2, the focus is on X; in #3, the focus is strongly on X.

I would only use #3 for a special effect, e.g. in a piece of advertising copy. It might sound odd in conversation, for instance; though it might suit a lecture.

All the best,

MrP

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We can do more than that:

  1. X is featured at Y.
  2. At Y, X is featured.
    2a. At Y is featured X.
  3. Featured at Y is X.

2a is usually used when X is some very long phrase, but not always.

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It is possible to place anything in ebay. Sometime back a person sold very bad video of students. This is one way of expressing his anger, a sort of out-let.
It is possible to place your ad to sell your house in other places like, nosle, myspace and other web sites. Nosle allows even to create a colorful page for this and editing and deleting when the purpose is over. You may try to place detailed messages in such web sites using proper key words in the title for easy search. Best of luck. n