there is for inserting it after a long subject. Moreover, there is
often need of some device to remove the ambiguities that are caused by
inversion. In English, the meaning of words is so greatly determined
by their position that, in altering the usual arrangement of a
sentence, there is risk of being misunderstood. The danger of
inserting the point in this case is that the object may be read with
the words going before, and not with its own verb. If there is a
possibility of this, the point should not be used.

Of course no point should be placed after the object in such a
sentence as the following:--"One I love, and the other I hate."

(2) An adverbial phrase, that is a phrase used as an adverb, is
usually placed after the verb; when it begins the sentence, a comma
follows it unless it is very short.

From the ridge a little way to the east, one can easily
trace the windings of the river.

In order to gain his point, he did not hesitate to use
deception.

In ordinary circumstances I should have acted differently.

No point would be used in the above sentences, if the adverbial
phrases occurred in their usual position.

He did not hesitate to use deception in order to gain his
point.

Nor is any point used when, as often happens in such sentences, the
verb precedes the subject.

Not very far from the foot of the mountain lies the village
we hope to reach.

(3) An adjective phrase, that is a phrase used as an adjective, is
usually placed immediately after the word which it qualifies; when it
appears in any other place, a comma is often usefully placed before
it.

A question was next put to the assembly, of supreme
importance at such a moment.

The phrase "of supreme importance at such a moment" is to be taken
along with "question"; the comma shows that it is not to be taken
along with "assembly." There is here a further reason for the point,
inasmuch as the phrase acquires from its position almost the
importance of an independent statement. But, where the connexion
between the adjective phrase and the substantive is very close, and
where there is no risk of ambiguity, no point is to be used. "The
morning was come of a mighty day"--such a sentence needs no point.
Observe also that co-ordinate adjective phrases take a comma before
them, wherever they are placed. (See next rule.)

XIV. Adjective clauses and contracted adjective clauses are marked o