Total Inversions
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% of Sentences
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Locative Inversions
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Complex Inversions
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Constituent Types
Confidence Levels
Inversion Types Distribution
Inversion Examples Explorer
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About This Project
This visualization presents the results of an analysis of subject-verb inversion in academic English texts. Subject-verb inversion is a syntactic construction where a main verb precedes its subject, contrary to the standard English SVO word order.
What is Subject-Verb Inversion?
In English, the typical word order is Subject-Verb-Object (SVO), as in: "The man entered the room." In subject-verb inversion, this order is changed, often with an adverbial or prepositional phrase appearing first, as in: "Into the room came a man."
Inversion Types
Our analysis identified several types of inversions based on the syntactic category of the fronted constituent:
For more information about this project, including methodology and the complete analysis, visit the GitHub repository.