At the corner of A Street and B Stree will open a new restaurant

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cannonkuo

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Usually, a statement sentence like "My father stood at the corner of A Street and B Street" can be inverted into " At the corner of A Street and B Street stood my father" if the emphasis is laid on "location."

By the same token, can the sentence " A new restaurant will open at the corner of A Street and B Street " be inverted as "At the corner of A Street and B Stree will open a new restaurant"?
 
It doesn't work for me with the future tense/aspect. It's fine with the past (the original example) and the present. That's not to say that you can't open with "At the corner of ...". You can, but you'll need a comma after the second "Street" and then "a new restaurant will open".
 
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