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A fantasy novelist is trying to add some epic flair to a battle scene. Select ALL the sentences that correctly use locative or participle fronting with full inversion!
The correct answers are Atop the crumbling tower stood the ancient wizard, staff in hand, Hidden beneath the floorboards was a chest of cursed gold, and Beside the iron throne sat the usurper king.
When fronting a phrase of location or a participle to set a scene, we often use full inversion (putting the entire main verb before the subject), but there are strict rules!
"Out of the dark cavern flew it" is incorrect because we cannot use full inversion when the subject is a pronoun (it should be Out of the dark cavern it flew).
"Down the spiral staircase did the armored knight tumble" is incorrect because we do not use do-support (do/does/did) for full locative inversion (it should be Down the spiral staircase tumbled the armored knight).