Subjects in Unusual Positions

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Subjects in Unusual Positions
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Subjects in Unusual Positions

• In most cases, the subject is placed before the
  verb.

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Subjects in Unusual Positions

• In some sentences, however, the subject appears
  after the verb.
• In other sentences, the subject is not stated at
  all.

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Inverted Sentences

• In an inverted sentence, the subject appears
  after the verb or between the words that make up
  the verb phrase.

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Inverted Sentences

• EX In his garden grew an 800-pound pumpkin. (An
  800-pound pumpkin grew in his garden)

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Inverted Sentences

• EX Never had the neighbors seen such a squash!
  (The neighbors had never seen such a squash!)

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Sentences Beginning with Here or There

• When a sentence begins with here or there, the
  subject usually follows the verb.

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Sentences Beginning with Here or There

• Here and there are almost never the subject of a
  sentence.

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Sentences Beginning with Here or There

• Here and there usually function as adverbs of
  place that modify by answering the question where?

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Questions

• In most questions, the subject appears after the
  verb or between the words that make up the verb
  phrase.

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Questions

• Was the cabbage large? (Subject after verb)

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Questions

• Did you see it? (Subject inside verb phrase)

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Questions

• In many questions that begin with whom, what, or
  how many, the subject falls between the parts of
  the verb (EX How many pounds did the cabbage
  weigh?

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Imperative Sentences

• The subject of an imperative sentence is always
  you.
• EX Dont complain.

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Practice

• Where can you get a good cabbage these days?
• Come to the annual cabbage competition in Palmer,
  Alaska.

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Practice

• There is hot competition for the 4,000 first
  prize.

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Practice

• Who grew the biggest cabbage?
• To Lesley Dinkel goes the title.

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Practice

• Among his many triumphs was a 98-pound master.
• Do the winners have advice for the rest of us
  gardeners?

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Practice

• Here is their best advice.
• Protect your cabbages from moose.
• How can you argue with advice like that?