A Stewartville man received a 6-year prison sentence — an upward departure from sentencing guidelines — for a pattern of stalking that authorities say contributed to a woman’s death. Long Vang, 36, in ...

Inversion is a sentence pattern that purposively disrupts the usual declarative form to achieve emphasis and better sentence transitions. It puts a prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, adjectival ...

APART from extraposition, or deferring the subject to the tail end of a clause or sentence, there's still another sentence pattern that purposively disrupts the usual declarative form to achieve ...