掉尾句例句:An dev e nw h i l e h ea w st，n g r osru adehe rt ol ea v ehe ri fr s thu s b a nd hewa sw。
英語掉尾句(periodic sentence)是一種比較正式的書面句型。其特點是將句子的次要成分提前，主要成分置後，形成整句的高潮，以取得設定懸念，吸引讀者非一口氣讀完不可的效果。
Just before I went away to college， my father took me aside， as I had expected， and said， as I had not expected， “Now， Son， if a strange woman comes up to you on a street corner and offers to take your watch around the corner and have it engraved， don't do it.”
