The verb before noun

[zhagnxupage]

I was reading some books and some poems. I found that sometimes the author put the verb before the subject, just like:

He saw the elephant, was he scared.

Why can he do that?

[Anglika]

Can you indicate what you mean by "verb before the noun". It is normal to have verbs in front of nouns.

[zhagnxupage]

I am sorry. I meant that "verb before the subject".

[Anglika]

In your sentence above:

He = subject
saw = verb
the elephant = object.

The full sentence is incorrect in that Was he scared is either question OR it is a rhetorical question, and it should have been divided from the first part with a full stop or a semi-colon. Either way the grammatical structure of that part is correct for a question.