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Inversion
If I write " There lies a big tree and a moutain", is the sentence grammatically correct?
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Re: Inversion
Grammatically, yes.
There lies this and that. <two separate units>
There lie this and that. <one whole unit>
Correction
mountain
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Re: Inversion
But when to separate, and when to consider it as a whole unit?
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Re: Inversion

Originally Posted by
Belly T
But when to separate, and when to consider it as a whole unit?
When Casiopea said 'Grammatically, yes' I think she was suggesting that in that case it would be more likely that the speaker would regard them as separate:
At the end of the trail, there lie a mountain and a tree [separate - two features of the landscape]
At the end of the trail, there lies a tree and a disused well [whole unit - one scene]
But what makes 'a scene', and what bits of it count as 'features', is a very subjective thing. So the speaker decides. 
b
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Re: Inversion
So how about this:
Here come or comes the cars?
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Re: Inversion
Plural subject, so 'here come'.
b
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