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I read a strange thing on my English book....?
Hi to everyone! I'm doing my English homework and I came across this sentence : "He urges me to slow down and we sit for 40 minutes in a glade and wait to see if a roe,fallow or muntjae deer will emerge; or perhaps a fox,badger or wild boar....but up pops a rabbit!"
Well,I think there is a mistake, because I expected to read "a rabbit pops/popped up".So how would you explain this inversion? Is there such a structure in English or it's just a typo?
Thank you!
Fahad : I don't know the character's age actually,it's not specified...
3 Answers
- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
It is just there to make the story more realistic I am guessing the main character or who ever the character is, is in her/his teenage years. Teens usually talk in phrases that make sense verbally but not grammatically.
RE: Even though you are not aware of the character's age you have to take a guess but either way the book is correct, the author used a literary device called a Hyperbole: to exaggerate or emphasize a point or statement
Source(s): English is about self-interpretation how you interpret the words. I do hope this helped... - ?Lv 68 years ago
I've heard this structure before. It's similar to "There goes an airplane" or something like that where the subject comes last and an adverb starts the sentence. I'm positive I've learned about this in my English class years ago, but I can't remember what it's called exactly. Generally it's used in conversation as it doesn't seem "proper" to make a sentence this way in writing. Hope that made sense and hope this helps :)
