Let's make a sentence with all the words that rhyme with cat. The cat sat on the mat. Yeah, well done. Because they all end with the sound 'at'. And that's why it's called cat. And that's why it's ...

On the mat sat the cat.' Inverting the sentence draws the reader's attention to the mat (the object) instead of the cat (the subject). It takes the reader by surprise because it's not what they ...