They forced my ten-year-old son to wear used toilet paper on his head,”complained a mother in Beijing on WeChat, a Chinese social-media site, in 2016. 请问老师 complained 为什么放在了mother的前面?
如果主语是名词,直接引语后面 ,主语可以放在谓语动词的后面或者前面,如果主语带有较长的修饰语(后置定语),就要把谓语动词放在主语的前面。这里的 complained是谓语动词, a mother 是主语(后面有定语)。