文学语法

文学英语允许为了效果而偏离标准语法——倒装语序、刻意的句子片段,以及在日常或学术写作中很少使用的古雅或诗意结构。

Examples

• Gone were the days of carefree summers.
• Silent, the forest waited.
• Never had the sky seemed so vast.
• And so it was that they parted ways forever.
• Whither thou goest, I will go. (archaic/poetic)

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