這句話 -- Also stunning are the benefits …為何可這樣寫?

Simon

2018-01-20 11:44 am

這句文法真的看不懂!看起來猜想是The benefits are also stunning的倒裝? 但改寫的句應又套不回原句，請幫忙釋疑
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TED – The hidden role informal playing caregivers play in
TEDSpeaker: Scott Williams at TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
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As we have just seen, many of you in this room weren't sure if you could be qualified or considered to be a carer.
Many of you probably thought I was referring to a nurse or some other healthcare professional.
Also stunning are the benefits that carers bring to our societies.
I want to give you just one example from Australia in 2015.
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文章名稱打錯了正確是 - The hidden role informal caregivers play in health care

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石破天驚

2018-01-20 5:31 pm

✔ 最佳答案

Yes, you are right. It was supposed to be the intention of the speaker to make an inversion, specifically, a "copular inversion". However, it is not grammatical. Copular inversion is a kind of subject-verb inversions, where the predicative nominal switches positions with the subject.

The sentence: "Also, the benefits that carers bring to our societies are stunning."
This sentence cannot be constructed as copular inversion, simply because the word "stunning" is a predicate adjective rather than predicate noun.

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