IN last week's column, we looked at how inverted sentences allow us to abandon the normal subject-verb-complement (S-V/C) sequence so we can deliver the verb or its complement wherever we feel it can ...

Sometime ago, a student in Cambodia preparing for a special English-language scholarship test sent me an e-mail expressing puzzlement over these two sentences: "Particularly unfortunate was my failure ...

WE have already taken up how inverted sentences depart from the normal sentence-verb-complement pattern (S-V/C) to put the verb or its complement wherever it can do its work best in the sentence, and ...