Swedish: An Essential Grammar, 2nd edition

Fredrik lovade (att) inte (CA) säga något.
Fredrik promised not to say anything.
Jag hoppas (att) snart (CA) få träffa dig igen.
I hope to meet you again soon.
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Word order
and sentence
structure
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Jag hoppas att i min nuvarande ställning (OA) fortsätta att
tjäna mitt land.
I hope in my present position to continue to serve my country.
Three types of subordinate clause with main clause structure
These are all exceptions, in different ways, to 12.8.2 above, in that the
subordinate clause forms part of a main clause sentence (cf. 12.8.1) but
has a word order that is similar to that of the main clause (see 12.3).
1 Att-clauses with a ‘topic’:
When a non-subject comes immediately after the conjunction att, the finite
verb and subject are inverted:
Conj.
‘Topic’
FV
S