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My study about inversion in Japanese and English Abstract Inversion means the act of changing the position or order of sth to its opposite, or of turning sth upside down. As a linguistic word, it always means inverse the normal word order. Keyword inversion comparision Japanese English 1.0 Inversion express in English Inversion is quite often used in daily life and it is not only used in spoken language but also in written language. And the inversion in English is various in forms. There are two types of the English inversion structure. One is partial inversion, the other one is full inversion. In the normal English sentence order, the subject is in the front while the predicativity is behind. If we put apart of the predicate in the front, the structure of English sentence is called inversion. The former one is that putting the modal verb, auxiliary verb or link verb in front of the subject. And the latter one is that putting the whole predicativity in front of the subject. 1.1 Full inversion The full inversion falls into four groups. 1.1.1 Position adv. + V. + subj Eg:*There goes the bell. *Here comes the bus. *Out rushed the children.(/view/20ee6ac78bd63186bcebbc28.html ) This type of inversion can be only used in ‘simple present tense’ and ‘simple past tense’.If the subject is noun, the sentence can be full inverted. If the subject is pronoun, it can’t. 1.1.2 Place preposition +v. + subj eg:*At the front of the door sat a boy. (A boy sat at the front of the door.) *Beside the river stood a pretty woman. (A pretty woman stood beside the river.) 1.1.3 Participle phrase +v. + subj. eg:*Present at the meeting were Professor White. (/view/20ee6ac78bd63186bcebbc28.html) *Gone are the days when teachers are look down upon. (/s_ky706/blog/static/17254157520101022111142619/) 1.1.4 Direct citation + v. + subj eg:*What’s that?” asked Mr. Kim. *Don’t do that!” said mother to her son. If the subject of the main clause is pronoun, the sentence can’t be in