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July 7, 2008, 3:52 pm

HI! Sorry it's taken me a while to reply, I've been super busy at work. To answer your question, I am a native English speaker, actually I'm a teacher of English. I thought you might like a bit of correction on your message. First of all, it's a full moon, not a fool moon. In your second sentence you said 'Somehow I don’t decide which one is greater beauty and more impressive.' but it's better to say 'I can't decide', and I would say 'is more beautiful'. Your last sentence was 'Are the glory of magnolia trees or full moon in the sky seen among their leaves.' Is this a question? I think it's related to what you can't decide in the previous sentence, so I'd put the two sentences together to say - 'Somehow I can't decide which is more beautiful and more impressive; the glorious magnolia trees or the full moon shining through their leaves.' Hope this makes sense :-) How's things in Turkey?

Yr usr nm

June 16, 2008, 4:53 pm

Does your name really stand for Surf Gurgle?? :-)

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June 11, 2008, 11:01 am

Hi srfgrgl (Surf gurgle?!), I've been thinking about your question, and have asked some of my colleagues (I even asked Johnny Grammar!), but no one can think of any examples of when we do this kind of inversion in English with a lexical verb (like 'see'). There are a few examples from literature where we might use inversion with auxiliary verbs (like 'be'), but it's not very common, and it's a bit old fashioned. Hope this answers your question! Mello :-)