In this shelter are a lot of dogs

[michal86]

Can we say”In this shelter are a lot of dogs” as well as “ There are a lot of dogs in this shelter.”

 

[GoesStation]

Hi, and welcome to the forum! :hi:

It's not standard word order, but you'll sometimes see sentences like that in literature. Have you seen this famous opening line?

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

I've changed the thread's title to conform with forum rules.

 

[emsr2d2]

Can we say (space needed here) "In this shelter are a lot of dogs” as well as “There are a lot of dogs in this shelter"?

Note my corrections above. Remember the spacing rules around quotation marks:

- Put a space before opening quotation marks.
- Don't put a space after opening quotation marks.
- Don't put a space before closing quotation marks.
- Put a space after closing quotation marks if the end of the sentence (including the closing punctuation mark) comes within the marks or if another word follows them. Don't put a space after the closing quotation marks if they are followed by another punctuation mark.

You put the question mark in the wrong place originally. The question mark is part of the main question, which falls outside the quotations.