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Help with question Hi, there Could you help me? 1) Which (or which ones??) are correct to write in a book? "Before us there opened out a beautiful view" or "Before us opened out a beautiful view" "From his mouth gushed a casacade of blood" or "From his mouth there flowed a cascade of blood"? 2) Do you say " a tall dark beautiful man" or "a tall, dark, beautiful man"? And "A long, baggy, Japanese-made skirt" or "A long baggy Japanese-made skirt"? Thank you very much

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Hi, there

Could you help me?

1) Which one or ones are correct to write in a book?
A"Before us there opened out a beautiful view" or B"Before us opened out a beautiful view"

G"From his mouth gushed a casacade of blood" or H"From his mouth there flowed a cascade of blood"?

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Do you say C" a tall dark beautiful man" or D"a tall, dark, beautiful man"?
And E"A long, baggy, Japanese-made skirt" or F"A long baggy Japanese-made skirt"?

One could rearrange A to 'There opened out before us a ....'. This is certainly good grammatically and is synonymous with A, so A is good English. Trying to do the same with B would also work: 'A beautiful view opened out before us'. This is certainly ... etc etc, so B is also good English, as the order of the words in both these sentences (A and B) is of little consequence.

A similar story applies to G and H. (both good English). Personally, I would reject C (certainly), and accept D (although some would put a comma after every adjective in this description, I would not for the 'beautiful'). Similarly, I would accept E and certainly reject F.

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Thank you very much, Derpius. What about 2?
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I personally see no reason to artificially invert the natural order? Before them a beautiful view opened up, from his mouth a cascade of blood flowed out.

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