這句話 -- Also stunning are the benefits …為何可這樣寫?

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這句文法真的看不懂!看起來猜想是The benefits are also stunning的倒裝? 但改寫的句應又套不回原句，請幫忙釋疑

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TED – The hidden role informal playing caregivers play in

TEDSpeaker: Scott Williams at TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

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As we have just seen, many of you in this room weren't sure if you could be qualified or considered to be a carer.

Many of you probably thought I was referring to a nurse or some other healthcare professional.

Also stunning are the benefits that carers bring to our societies.

I want to give you just one example from Australia in 2015.

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文章名稱打錯了正確是 - The hidden role informal caregivers play in health care

Answer 1

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Yes, you are right. It was supposed to be the intention of the speaker to make an inversion, specifically, a "copular inversion". However, it is not grammatical. Copular inversion is a kind of subject-verb inversions, where the predicative nominal switches positions with the subject.

The sentence: "Also, the benefits that carers bring to our societies are stunning."

This sentence cannot be constructed as copular inversion, simply because the word "stunning" is a predicate adjective rather than predicate noun.

• Simon

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  Thanks very much, I got.
  

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