at the cottage just over my shoulder is where they had been growing cannabis?
Here's a British news report:
And this is what I've transcribed:
Well, last August when it was found that Neil and Yvette Hartley had...had been growing almost 90 cannabis plants, little did their neighbours know that in this quiet corner -- this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside, at the cottage just over my shoulder is where they had been growing cannabis.
I do hear at before the cottage, but in that case, I don't know how to figure out the structure of the that-clause.
Is this some kind of inversion?
sentence-structure inversion
asked 1 hour ago
listeneva
346
add a comment |
Here's a British news report:
And this is what I've transcribed:
Well, last August when it was found that Neil and Yvette Hartley had...had been growing almost 90 cannabis plants, little did their neighbours know that in this quiet corner -- this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside, at the cottage just over my shoulder is where they had been growing cannabis.
I do hear at before the cottage, but in that case, I don't know how to figure out the structure of the that-clause.
Is this some kind of inversion?
sentence-structure inversion
asked 1 hour ago
listeneva
346
The same structure as in I know that you are right.
– Michael Rybkin
1 hour ago
I think it's just a mistake by the speaker. The clip is not from a broadcaster, it's from the Daily Mail (a right wing newspaper, not noted for its high English standards).
– Michael Harvey
38 mins ago
add a comment |
Here's a British news report:
And this is what I've transcribed:
Well, last August when it was found that Neil and Yvette Hartley had...had been growing almost 90 cannabis plants, little did their neighbours know that in this quiet corner -- this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside, at the cottage just over my shoulder is where they had been growing cannabis.
I do hear at before the cottage, but in that case, I don't know how to figure out the structure of the that-clause.
Is this some kind of inversion?
sentence-structure inversion
asked 1 hour ago
listeneva
346
Here's a British news report:
And this is what I've transcribed:
Well, last August when it was found that Neil and Yvette Hartley had...had been growing almost 90 cannabis plants, little did their neighbours know that in this quiet corner -- this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside, at the cottage just over my shoulder is where they had been growing cannabis.
I do hear at before the cottage, but in that case, I don't know how to figure out the structure of the that-clause.
Is this some kind of inversion?
sentence-structure inversion
sentence-structure inversion
asked 1 hour ago
listeneva
346
asked 1 hour ago
listeneva
346
asked 1 hour ago
listeneva
346
asked 1 hour ago
listeneva
346
asked 1 hour ago
listeneva
346
346
The same structure as in I know that you are right.
– Michael Rybkin
1 hour ago
I think it's just a mistake by the speaker. The clip is not from a broadcaster, it's from the Daily Mail (a right wing newspaper, not noted for its high English standards).
– Michael Harvey
38 mins ago
add a comment |
The same structure as in I know that you are right.
– Michael Rybkin
1 hour ago
I think it's just a mistake by the speaker. The clip is not from a broadcaster, it's from the Daily Mail (a right wing newspaper, not noted for its high English standards).
– Michael Harvey
38 mins ago
The same structure as in I know that you are right.
– Michael Rybkin
1 hour ago
The same structure as in I know that you are right.
– Michael Rybkin
1 hour ago
I think it's just a mistake by the speaker. The clip is not from a broadcaster, it's from the Daily Mail (a right wing newspaper, not noted for its high English standards).
– Michael Harvey
38 mins ago
I think it's just a mistake by the speaker. The clip is not from a broadcaster, it's from the Daily Mail (a right wing newspaper, not noted for its high English standards).
– Michael Harvey
38 mins ago
add a comment |
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
Little did their neighbors know
that
in this quiet corner
—this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside—
at the cottage just over my shoulder
is where they had been growing cannabis
You can understand at the cottage just over my shoulder as a locative phrase paralleling in this quiet corner and —this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside— as standing in apposition to this quiet corner.
It may seem a little odd to have a prepositional phrase stand as the subject of is, but it is quite frequent in colloquial speech when the predicate complement is a phrase headed by where:
At the barbershop down on Main Street is where I got this lightning bolt shaved on my head.
In this corner is where the disobedient child is told to sit. We call it the "time out corner".
So:
... in this quiet corner ... at the cottage over my shoulder is where ...
P.S. The same can occur with temporal phrases:
On the fourth Thursday of November is when we celebrate Thanksgiving in the US.
Locative and temporal phrases can be chained together in order to "zero in" on the specific place or time.
In Philadelphia, in the old section of the city down near the river, on Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th, stands Independence Hall.
answered 1 hour ago
Tᴚoɯɐuo
108k680174
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "481"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: false,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: null,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
noCode: true, onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fell.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f191185%2fat-the-cottage-just-over-my-shoulder-is-where-they-had-been-growing-cannabis%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
Little did their neighbors know
that
in this quiet corner
—this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside—
at the cottage just over my shoulder
is where they had been growing cannabis
You can understand at the cottage just over my shoulder as a locative phrase paralleling in this quiet corner and —this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside— as standing in apposition to this quiet corner.
It may seem a little odd to have a prepositional phrase stand as the subject of is, but it is quite frequent in colloquial speech when the predicate complement is a phrase headed by where:
At the barbershop down on Main Street is where I got this lightning bolt shaved on my head.
In this corner is where the disobedient child is told to sit. We call it the "time out corner".
So:
... in this quiet corner ... at the cottage over my shoulder is where ...
P.S. The same can occur with temporal phrases:
On the fourth Thursday of November is when we celebrate Thanksgiving in the US.
Locative and temporal phrases can be chained together in order to "zero in" on the specific place or time.
In Philadelphia, in the old section of the city down near the river, on Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th, stands Independence Hall.
answered 1 hour ago
Tᴚoɯɐuo
108k680174
add a comment |
Little did their neighbors know
that
in this quiet corner
—this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside—
at the cottage just over my shoulder
is where they had been growing cannabis
You can understand at the cottage just over my shoulder as a locative phrase paralleling in this quiet corner and —this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside— as standing in apposition to this quiet corner.
It may seem a little odd to have a prepositional phrase stand as the subject of is, but it is quite frequent in colloquial speech when the predicate complement is a phrase headed by where:
At the barbershop down on Main Street is where I got this lightning bolt shaved on my head.
In this corner is where the disobedient child is told to sit. We call it the "time out corner".
So:
... in this quiet corner ... at the cottage over my shoulder is where ...
P.S. The same can occur with temporal phrases:
On the fourth Thursday of November is when we celebrate Thanksgiving in the US.
Locative and temporal phrases can be chained together in order to "zero in" on the specific place or time.
In Philadelphia, in the old section of the city down near the river, on Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th, stands Independence Hall.
answered 1 hour ago
Tᴚoɯɐuo
108k680174
add a comment |
Little did their neighbors know
that
in this quiet corner
—this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside—
at the cottage just over my shoulder
is where they had been growing cannabis
You can understand at the cottage just over my shoulder as a locative phrase paralleling in this quiet corner and —this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside— as standing in apposition to this quiet corner.
It may seem a little odd to have a prepositional phrase stand as the subject of is, but it is quite frequent in colloquial speech when the predicate complement is a phrase headed by where:
At the barbershop down on Main Street is where I got this lightning bolt shaved on my head.
In this corner is where the disobedient child is told to sit. We call it the "time out corner".
So:
... in this quiet corner ... at the cottage over my shoulder is where ...
P.S. The same can occur with temporal phrases:
On the fourth Thursday of November is when we celebrate Thanksgiving in the US.
Locative and temporal phrases can be chained together in order to "zero in" on the specific place or time.
In Philadelphia, in the old section of the city down near the river, on Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th, stands Independence Hall.
answered 1 hour ago
Tᴚoɯɐuo
108k680174
Little did their neighbors know
that
in this quiet corner
—this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside—
at the cottage just over my shoulder
is where they had been growing cannabis
You can understand at the cottage just over my shoulder as a locative phrase paralleling in this quiet corner and —this quiet pretty little corner in the Kent countryside— as standing in apposition to this quiet corner.
It may seem a little odd to have a prepositional phrase stand as the subject of is, but it is quite frequent in colloquial speech when the predicate complement is a phrase headed by where:
At the barbershop down on Main Street is where I got this lightning bolt shaved on my head.
In this corner is where the disobedient child is told to sit. We call it the "time out corner".
So:
... in this quiet corner ... at the cottage over my shoulder is where ...
P.S. The same can occur with temporal phrases:
On the fourth Thursday of November is when we celebrate Thanksgiving in the US.
Locative and temporal phrases can be chained together in order to "zero in" on the specific place or time.
In Philadelphia, in the old section of the city down near the river, on Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th, stands Independence Hall.
answered 1 hour ago
Tᴚoɯɐuo
108k680174
edited 36 mins ago
answered 1 hour ago
Tᴚoɯɐuo
108k680174
answered 1 hour ago
Tᴚoɯɐuo
108k680174
answered 1 hour ago
Tᴚoɯɐuo
108k680174
108k680174
add a comment |
add a comment |
Thanks for contributing an answer to English Language Learners Stack Exchange!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Some of your past answers have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from answering.
Please pay close attention to the following guidance:
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fell.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f191185%2fat-the-cottage-just-over-my-shoulder-is-where-they-had-been-growing-cannabis%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
The same structure as in I know that you are right.
– Michael Rybkin
1 hour ago
I think it's just a mistake by the speaker. The clip is not from a broadcaster, it's from the Daily Mail (a right wing newspaper, not noted for its high English standards).
– Michael Harvey
38 mins ago