在英语语法中，前置指的是任何一种结构，在这种结构中，通常跟在动词后面的词组放在句子的开头。也称为前焦点或前置。

正面是一种焦点策略，通常用于增强凝聚力和强调。当在对话中使用前置时，演讲者可以将注意力放在句子的开头，使故事更引人注目。

如何使用前置

Fronting has a variety of functions in discourse, especially in the maintenance of cohesion. It can be used to organize the flow of information in a text, express contrast, and give emphasis to particular elements. In particular, fronting serves as a device to to make non-subject elements the theme of a sentence

皮尔斯，迈克尔。罗特利奇英语语言研究词典。劳特利奇，2007年。

Fronting can also trigger something called inverted subject-verb order. By moving the subject out of its natural environment, it involves a shift of emphasis and represents another aspect to this focus device. In Old English, this inverted order had a considerable dramatic force and was typical of lively narrative sequences. It has still retained a kind of mock dramatic effect, as the examples below show: Out jumped the goblins, big goblins, great ugly-looking goblins, lots of goblins. (p. 67) Then in crept the Hobbit. (p. 172) Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. (p. 77) Suddenly came Gollum and whispered and hissed. (p. 77) As the above four examples illustrate, these constructions always involve fronted phrases (like directional and positional adverbials) and the verbs are intransitive (typical verbs of movement or location). In these examples, the verbs jumped, crept, lived and came have shifted to precede their subjects the goblin, big goblins, great ugly-looking goblins, lots of goblins, the Hobbit, old Gollum, and Gollum.

Börjars Kersti和Kate Burridge。介绍英语语法。阿诺德，霍德标题组成员，2001年。

Yet to suggest itself as a rational method of communication, of infuriating readers into buying the magazine, was strange, inverted Timestyle... Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind... Certainly to be taken with seriousness is [Henry] Luce at thirty-eight, his fellowman already informed up to his ears, the shadow of his enterprises long across the land, his future plans impossible to imagine, staggering to contemplate. Where it all will end, knows God!

吉布斯、沃尔科特和托马斯·J·文西古拉。倒转的句子：来自《纽约客》的沃尔科特·吉布斯的最佳作品。美国布卢姆斯伯里，2011年。

正面的例子

杰克伦敦

“在火势蔓延之前，一排排排的士兵被抛下。”

索尔特

六月里，酷热难耐，早晨像蛋壳一样，苍白而光滑

尤达

“强大的你已经成为杜库，我感觉到你的黑暗面。”

欧内斯特·海明威

“兄弟，我从来没有见过比你更伟大、更美丽、更平静、更高贵的东西。”

库切

“他们不再费事去要求合法性。他们对此不屑一顾的理由。”

索尔特

“附近果园的看台上有坚硬的黄苹果，里面装满了强力果汁。”

P.J.奥洛克

“一个角落里拴着一台电视机——我所说的“颜色”主要是橙色——接收信号和我一样模糊。”