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Old 10-12-2010, 06:09 PM   #23640
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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt View Post
Is it just me, or is this kind of sentence structure a relatively new fad in English? I mean starting a sentence with a pronoun (he) and only introducing the name afterward (grandson), when logically it should be the other way around. I keep noticing it since I read a cheap romance (free, actually ) where it felt like every second sentence used that structure. It annoyed me, not because of the structure itself but because it was used so often. But lately I also noticed it in a book by China Miéville, and elsewhere.
It's neither new nor usual, but I've seen it done from time to time. It breaks up the monotony a bit from having to say everything the same old way.
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