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There has been an accident.
There is nothing in it.
There appeared an ugly face over the fence.
There occurred a sudden revolution in public taste.
There comes our chief.
d) Exclamatory sentences expressing wish, despair, indignation, or other strong
emotions.
Long live the king!
Come what may!
e) Exclamatory sentences which are negative in form but positive
in meaning.
Have I not watched them! (= I have watched them.)
Wouldn’t that be fun! (= It would be fun.)
f) Negative imperative sentences.
Don’t you do it.
2. Inversion is used as a grammatical means of subordination in some complex sentences joined without
connectors:
a) In conditional clauses.
Were you sure of it, you wouldn’t hesitate.
Had she known it before, she wouldn’t have made this mistake.
b) In concessive clauses.
Proud as he was, he had to consent to our proposal.
c) In the second part of a sentence of proportional agreement
(although inversion is not obligatory in this case).
The more he thought of it, the less clear was the matter.
3. Inversion is used in sentences beginning with adverbs denoting place. This usage is traditional, going
back to OE norms.
Here is another example.
There goes another bus (туда идет еще один автобус, еще автобус идет).
4. Inversion is used in stage directions, although this use is limited to certain verbs.
Enter the King, the Queen.
Enter Beatie Bryant, an ample blond.
5. Inversion may be used in sentences indicating whose words or thoughts are given as direct or indirect
speech. These sentences may introduce, interrupt, or follow the words in direct or indirect speech, or may be
given in parenthesis.
“That’s him,” said Tom (Tom said).