C2sentence structure144 問
C2 Mastery word order
ルール
At C2 word order stops being a rule to obey and becomes a tool: what goes first, what goes last and what is left out all carry meaning of their own.
覚えておこう
- Fronted negatives and restrictives force inversion: not until the audit did anyone notice.
- Clefts, absolutes and reduced relatives repackage the same content around a different focus.
- End-weight puts the heaviest element last so the sentence stays readable.
よくある落とし穴
Inversion after a fronted negative is obligatory, not stylistic. Never before anyone had seen it is wrong however natural the uninverted order feels.
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