What are the forms of inverted sentences in English?

First, the conventional structure of inverted sentences.

1, basic sentence pattern 1: subject 1, predicate 2;

2. Basic sentence pattern 2: the subject is at 1, the copula is at 2, and the predicate is at 3;

3. Basic sentence pattern 3: the subject is 1, the predicate is 2 and the object is 3;

4. Basic sentence pattern 4: subject 1, predicate 2, indirect object 3, direct object 4;

5. Basic sentence pattern 5: the subject is 1, the predicate is 2, the object is 3, and the object complement is 4;

Second, the unconventional structure:

If you don't arrange the positions of the above five roles according to the normal structure in the sentence, you will have an unconventional structure. The specific performance is as follows:

(1) the change of subject status;

(2) the change of predicate position (including predicate);

(3) the change of object position;

④ The change of the position of the object complement.

Extended data

1, questions and special questions should be inverted.

Are you cold?

Does he go to school by bike?

Note: if the interrogative word is used as the subject or the attribute of the subject in the sentence, it is not inverted.

Who is your English teacher?

2. There are sentence patterns

In the sentence pattern There+ auxiliary verb/modal verb +be+ subject+place/time, the subject is behind the predicate be verb, so this is inversion.

There was no subway in Beijing before.

Note: this inverted sentence is also applicable to sentence patterns such as seems/occurrence/use/life/camel.

3. When all or part of the direct speech is placed at the beginning of the sentence, the quoted verbs and their subjects are fashionable.

Get out of the room! Cried the angry woman.

In a sentence that begins with adverbs such as here, there, now, in, out, up, down, away, then this sentence should be reversed to show emphasis. Traditionally, then sentences begin with the present tense except the past tense.

The bell is ringing. There was a ring at the bell

Note: in this sentence pattern, if the subject is a pronoun, it is not inverted.

5. Omission and inversion of subjunctive conditional sentences

If-guided subjunctive conditional sentences contain had, were, should, etc. If if is omitted, had, were, should, etc. It should be moved to the front of the subject to form an inverted sentence:

If you had come yesterday, you would have met him.

If you had come yesterday, you would have met him.