The Thrilling Adventures/Syntactical Order

​The Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
- ELT Syntax

• The sentence isn't complete until the end

• Main/independent clause comes at the end

• More suspensful tone

Periodic Sentence

• The sentence would be complete if ended earlier

• Main/independent clause comes at the beginning

• Normally more casual tone

​Cumulative Sentence

Syntactical Order

Multiple Choice

From my amateur psychologist armchair, I would guess that he was eternally waiting.

• Cumulative sentence

• Periodic sentence

Multiple Choice

The engine could analyze all subjects of the universe!

• Cumulative sentence

• Periodic sentence

Inversion

Reverses the subject-verb-object order in the sentence

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an inversion?

1. 1. Gone are the days she was sad.

2. 2. The days she was sad are gone.

• 1. 1.

• 2.