SUBJECT BEFORE VERB IN THE AFFIRMATIVE ( ENGLISH GRAMMAR )

SUBJECT BEFORE VERB IN THE AFFIRMATIVE

Arrived John at the station.

John arrived at the station.

Extremely common for non native speakers to forget that in English the subject comes before

the verb in affirmations.

DOUBLE SUBJECT ERROR

My brother hespeaks English .

My brother speaks English.

My country it is very beautiful.

My country is beautiful.

This my car cost me a lot of money
.
My car cost a lot of money.

These are classical errors. In the above examples, the speaker has used two subjects instead of only one.

OMISSION OF SUBJECT

I think is going to rain.

I think it is going to rain.

In the first example, there is no subject before ‘is’. We always need a subject before the

verb. When we talk about the weather, time, speed, distance or things, we use the subject
‘it’.
Here is another example of this kind of error:
Is alright to meet at 4 instead of at 5?
Is it alright to meet at 4 instead of at 5?
In the first example (the one which is incorrect) we do not know ‘what’ is alright. There is
no subject. In the second example, we have ‘it’ as the subject so this sentence is correct.