Question

President george w. bush, in eulogizing president reagan, stated when ronald reagan was a child he "knew the world as a place of open plains, quiet streets, gas-lit rooms, and carriages drawn by horse." which language device was president bush using when he said "carriages drawn by horses"?

Answer 1

The language device that President George W. Bush used when he said "carriages drawn by horses” is called inversion. Inversion occurs when we invert the structure of a normal word order, usually the subject-verb order.

For example, a sentence has the subject (s) first before the verb (v). To inert the word order, we reverse the subject and the verb using a modal or auxiliary verb before the subject (s).