Question

请教英语倒装句 Accustomed

Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been,in the full sense of the word, silent.
请问老师：为什么 句中用正常语序" we are", 我觉得应该用 " are we"。

Answer 1

本句though引导的让步状语从句并不是倒装句，只是把从句中作表语的部分 提前。

无论任何成分,只要置于句首就是强调.此处把 accustomed 提前就是一种强调的修辞手法。
=though we are accustomed to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been,in the full sense of the word, silent.
句子意思：尽管我们习惯于把1927年前制作的电影称为是无声电影,但真正意思上来讲这部电影绝不是无声的

追问

您的意思是这不是倒装，而是一种强调句试， 其作用和it is ....that ....类似？
您看这个句子是倒装吗？Missing until recently were fossils clearly intermediate, or transitional, between land mammals and cetaceans.这里为什么 were fossiles 是倒装的语序呢？

追答

是的。
主语和表语可以倒装。如in the classroom are the students。
但和某些句子成分前置是两回事。原问题句 连词后的语序不需要倒装