E.g. Talent Mr. Micawber has; capita lMr. Micawber has not. /Dickens/
· The attribute is placed after the word it modifies. This model is often used when there is more than one attribute.
E.g. With finger weary and worn... /Thomas Hood/ [4]
Once upon a midnight dreary... /E.A.Poe/ [4]
· a) The predicative is placed before the subject.
E.g. A good generous prayerit was. /Mark Twain/ [4]
b) The predicate stands before the link-verb and both are placed before the subject
E.g. Rude am I in my speech... /W.Shakespeare/ [4]
· The adverbial modifier is placed at the beginning of the sentence.
E.g. EagerlyI wished the morrow. /Poe/ [44]
My dearest daughter, at your feetI fall. /Dryden/ [4]
· Both modifier and predicate stand before the subject.
E.g. In went Mr. Pickwick. /Dickens/ [4]
Down dropped the breeze. /Coleridge/ [4]
These five models comprise the most common and recognized models of inversion. However, in Modern English and American poetry there appears a definite tendency to experiment with the word order to the extent, which may render the message unintelligible. In this case there may be an almost unlimited number of rearrangements of the members of the sentence .
DETACHED CONSTRUCTION is a stylistic device in which one of the secondary parts of a sentence by some specific consideration of the writer is placed so that it seems formally independent of the word it logically refers to.
Detached parts assume a greater degree of significance and are given prominence by intonation. The most common cases of detached constructions are those in which an attribute or an adverbial modifier is placed not with its immediate referent, but in some other position.
E.g. Sir Pitt came in first, very much flushed, and rather unsteady in his gait. /Thackeray/ [4]
The essential quality of detached constructions lies in the fact that the isolated parts represent a kind of independent whole thrust into the sentence which will make the phrase seem independent. But this phrase cannot become a primary member of the sentence [4, p. 206].
A variant of detached construction is parenthesis – a qualifying, explanatory or appositive word, phrase, clause, sentence, etc. which interrupts a syntactic construction without otherwise affecting it [4, p. 207].
E.g. June stood in front, fending off this idle curiosity - a little bit of a thing, as somebody said, ‘all hair and spirit’. /Galsworthy/ [4]
Parenthesis separated from the rest of the utterance by dashes or brackets is called insertion.
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