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 ITALIAN GRAMMAR
 
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Subject After the Verb

  • Colloquial Italian has a much freer syntactical construction than English and there are many examples when the usual order SUBJECT - VERB is reversed and the subject can occur at the end of the sentence. Examples (the subject is in red):

    Allora lo chiami tu Renato? ≡ Are you going to call Renato?
    Sei un vero amico tu You are a real friend!
    Verrà a prenderlo un suo amico A friend of his is going to fetch him
    ◊ Devo andare prima che arrivi l'insegnante I must go before the teacher arrives
    ◊ È una brava ragazza Barbara ≡ Barbara's a good girl
     

  • The normal syntactical construction is usually possible as well. Examples:

    Allora tu chiami Renato... ≡ Are you going to call Renato?
    Tu sei un vero amico ≡ You are a real friend!
    Un suo amico verrà a prenderlo A friend of his is going to fetch him
    ◊ Devo andare prima che l'insegnante arrivi I must go before the teacher arrives
    Barbara è una brava ragazza ≡ Barbara's a good girl
     

  • While both constructions are grammatically correct, there is often a fundamental difference: the SUBJECT - VERB construction tends to be more like an objective statement, whereas the VERB - SUBJECT order implies an emotional involvement in what you are saying.


   ITALIAN GRAMMAR    

  1. The Definite Article
  2. Stressed and Unstressed Direct Object Personal Pronouns
  3. The Second Person Pronoun TU
  4. Subject After the Verb
  5. Negative Form
  6. The Italian Progressive Form

 

 

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