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Adjectives
Huge it was.
Other compliments
An absolute fortune it must have cost.
Participles
Gone were the designer sunglasses.
When part of a sentence is moved from its normal position to the beginning of
the sentence, we call this fronting. The part of the sentence moved to the front
might be the object or some other compliment, an adverbial or even the main
verb itself.
These notes cover some of the more common uses of fronting. There are
others but they are not very common.
*Students should not think that fronting is a general structure for giving
emphasis. There are other, far more common, ways of giving emphasis more
generally (adverbs, superlative adjectives, auxiliaries, cleft sentences etc.)
Inversion (changing the position of the subject and verb) is common with
fronting.
Examples