Re: What is this construction

At 17:13 19/09/2005, you wrote:
>On Sep 19, 2005, at 7:16 AM, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> >English occasionally uses a sentence structure of the form Pronoun
> >Verb Object, Aux Subject where Aux is a form of "to do" or "to be"
> >(or possibly another modal). For example, He liked languages, did
> >Tolkien. It may be a particularly Northern English form. Does anyone
> >know what such a construction is called?
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>BTW, I couldn't form this kind of sentence using "to be" as the AUX.
>I always wind up with a question!
"To be" is the aux when it is also the main verb.

"It's a big place, is London."

Pete