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“She did not even hear his last request, so terrified was she by those ill-omened words”
the sentence is grammatically correct, but the part after the comma sounds strange to me. Could you please explain its grammar rules?
“She did not even hear his last request, so terrified was she by those ill-omened words”
the sentence is grammatically correct, but the part after the comma sounds strange to me. Could you please explain its grammar rules?
the sentence is grammatically correct, but the part after the comma sounds strange to me. Could you please explain its grammar rules?
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It sounds poetic, dramatic, and literary to use the word order “terrified was she” instead of the standard “she was terrified”.
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In the second clause – we are inverting the order of the words, in order to make a more structurally efficient phrase – which will make the first clause dependent on the second clause. Ordinarily, we would use an extra word and it would be written like this –
She did not even hear his last request BECAUSE she was so terrified by those ill-omened words.
But by altering it to – so terrified was she – There is no need for the linking word.
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