1. Subjects in Unusual Positions

2. Subjects in Unusual Positions
In most cases, the subject is placed before the verb.
Subjects in Unusual Positions

3. Subjects in Unusual Positions
In some sentences, however, the subject appears after the verb.
In other sentences, the subject is not stated at all.
Subjects in Unusual Positions

4. In most questions, the subject appears after the verb or between the words that make up the verb phrase.
Questions

5. Questions Was the cabbage large? (Subject after verb)
Are you healthy? (you is the subject, are is the verb)
Do you have agility? (you is the subject, Do have is the verb phrase)
Questions

6. Did you see it? (Subject inside verb phrase)
Questions

7. In many questions that begin with whom, what, or how many, the subject falls between the parts of the verb (EX: How many pounds did the cabbage weigh?
Questions

8. The subject of an imperative sentence is always you.
EX: Don’t complain.
Imperative Sentences

9. Sentences Beginning with Here or There
When a sentence begins with here or there, the subject usually follows the verb.
Sentences Beginning with Here or There

10. Sentences Beginning with Here or There
Here and there are almost never the subject of a sentence.
Sentences Beginning with Here or There

11. Sentences Beginning with Here or There
Here and there usually function as adverbs of place that modify by answering the question where?
Sentences Beginning with Here or There

12. In an inverted sentence, the subject appears after the verb or between the words that make up the verb phrase.
Inverted Sentences

13. EX: In his garden grew an 800-pound pumpkin
EX: In his garden grew an 800-pound pumpkin. (An 800- pound pumpkin grew in his garden)
Inverted Sentences

14. EX: Never had the neighbors seen such a squash
EX: Never had the neighbors seen such a squash! (The neighbors had never seen such a squash!)
Inverted Sentences

15. Practice Where can you get a good cabbage these days?
Come to the annual cabbage competition in Palmer, Alaska.
Practice

16. There is hot competition for the $4,000 first prize.
Practice

17. Who grew the biggest cabbage?
To Lesley Dinkel goes the title.
Practice

18. Practice Among his many triumphs was a 98- pound master.
Do the winners have advice for the rest of us gardeners?
Practice

19. Practice Here is their best advice. Protect your cabbages from moose.
How can you argue with advice like that?
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