The Grammaring Guide to English Grammar with Exercises

Subject-verb inversion after place adverbials

When an adverb or an adverbial expression of place comes in the initial position (at the beginning of the sentence), the subject and verb are inverted:

Down the hill

rolled the children

.

Round the corner

was a nice café

.

This is a rhetorical device used mainly in formal and literary styles; however, it may also occur in everyday conversation:

Here

comes the bus

.

There

goes Sally

.

Here

's my number

.

But if the subject is a personal pronoun, there is no inversion:

Here

it comes

.

There

she goes

.

Here

it is

.