Sentence structure

Brandon M.A1Kwiziq community member

Sentence structure

"Il y a au moins trois labels de qualité que peuvent recevoir les communes françaises."

I was reading a short piece and came across this sentence. I understand everything up until peuvent recevoir. I know what it's suppose to mean however why after que, we use peuvent instead of saying

Il y a au moins trois labels de qualité que  les communes français peuvent recevoir .

Asked 2 weeks ago
Maarten K.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor Correct answer

Brandon, 

this is stylistic inversion. It is considered formal, optional and is most commonly found in writing, rather than heard in everyday speech.  

See link :

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/inversion-with-nouns/

 

Sentence structure

"Il y a au moins trois labels de qualité que peuvent recevoir les communes françaises."

I was reading a short piece and came across this sentence. I understand everything up until peuvent recevoir. I know what it's suppose to mean however why after que, we use peuvent instead of saying

Il y a au moins trois labels de qualité que  les communes français peuvent recevoir .

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