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Adverb particles are often fronted when giving instructions to small children. Offwe go! Down you come!
Inversion (see 302-303) is necessary after some emphatic fronted adverbs and adverbial expressions.
Under no circumstances can we accept cheques. (NOT Under n6 eireUln9tanee3 It!€ cttn ...)
Round the corner came Mrs Porter. 5 fronting with as or though
Fronted adjectives and adverbs are possible in a structure with as or though (see 71).
Young as 1 was, 1 realised what was happening. Tired though she was, she went on working.
Fast though she drove, she could not catch them. Much as 1 respect his work, 1 cannot agree with him.
See also entries on basic word order (509), information structure (512), 'spacing Ollt' information in speech (514), tags (514), emphasis (184) and cleft sentences (130-131).
For the lise of passive and other structures to bring objects to the front, see 512.3, 414.1.
514 sentence structure (6): spoken structures and tags
1 This guy who rang up, he's an architect
In informal speech, we often 'space out' the different elements of a sentence, giving the hearer a little extra time to interpret each part befure going on to the next.
Last Wednesday it was, 1 was just going to work, ...
It's te"ible, you know, the unemployment down there.
One way of spacing out information is to separate a subject or object, announce it at the front of a sentence, and then repeat it with a pronoun.
George Best - now he was a good player.
This guy who rang up, he's an architect. Well. ...
That couple we met in Berlin, we don't want to send them a card, do we? One ofmy brothers, his wife'S a singer, he says ...
This does not usually happen with pronoun subjects, but me and myselfare occasionally detached and fronted.
Me, 1 don't care.
Myself, 1 think you're making a big mistake.
Another common way of separating part of a sentence is to introduce it with
You know .. ,
You know Sylvia. Well, she ...
2 tags: They work very hard, most of them
We can space out information by putting some of it in a complete sentence and then adding more details at the end. The extra words at the end are called a 'tag'.
They work very hard. most o f them.
That's the doorbell, 1 think. 1 don't mind, to be honest.
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