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huabianhudie
25 Jan

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“She did not even hear his last request, so terrified was she by those ill-omened words”
the sentence is grammatically correct, but the part after the comma sounds strange to me. Could you please explain its grammar rules?

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Anivia
25 Jan

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It sounds poetic, dramatic, and literary to use the word order “terrified was she” instead of the standard “she was terrified”.

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isthmus_x
25 Jan

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@huabianhudie

In the second clause – we are inverting the order of the words, in order to make a more structurally efficient phrase – which will make the first clause dependent on the second clause. Ordinarily, we would use an extra word and it would be written like this –

She did not even hear his last request BECAUSE she was so terrified by those ill-omened words.

But by altering it to – so terrified was she – There is no need for the linking word.

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