Hello. Please help me with the sentence (is it normal English?):
There was captured a ship in the Indian Ocean.
Thank you very much.
It's an awkward sentence.
A much better sentence is:
A ship was captured in the Indian Ocean.
You could also do:
There was a captured ship in the Indian Ocean.
Or:
In the Indian Ocean, there was a captured ship.
(I would also use more adjectives, but that depends what this is for)
Hello! The sentence you provided, "There was captured a ship in the Indian Ocean," is not considered normal English. It is grammatically incorrect because it violates the word order rules in English.
To fix the sentence and make it grammatically correct, you can use either of the following options:
Option 1: "A ship was captured in the Indian Ocean."
In this sentence, the subject ("a ship") comes before the verb ("was captured"), which is the typical word order in English.
Option 2: "A ship in the Indian Ocean was captured."
In this sentence, the subject ("a ship in the Indian Ocean") still comes before the verb ("was captured"), but the prepositional phrase "in the Indian Ocean" is moved to the end of the sentence for better flow.
Both options convey the same meaning but follow the correct word order in English.