The Constitution, as it is written, is a most imposing document having been written by men who had nothing but the best intentions for the establishment of a great country. But it has one major flaw.

A term from the realm of grammar is picked up and used not in its original sense, writes Geoffrey Pullum, but in a sense that the user feels it ought to have.

They imagine that any kind of sentence that might intuitively be used for exclaiming and/or ends with ‘!’ must belong, so they give examples like I can’t figure this out! (a declarative), or ...

Inversion is a sentence pattern that purposively disrupts the usual declarative form to achieve emphasis and better sentence transitions. It puts a prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, adjectival ...