Occasionally, in literary English, subject-verb inversion is found in relative clauses introduced by relative adverbs. Here is an example plucked fresh from Google Books, a compound-complex sentence containing two independent clauses, two relative clauses (one of which has inversion), and four passive-voice verb phrases!Is it possible for a subject-verb inversion to happen in a relative clause?
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