Grammer check?

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Hello,
Is this sentence below is grammatically correct?
If yes, what is the subject and verb, and what is the tense?

"Everywhere I looked was something I had never seen before.

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@POPSICLE,

What do you think are the subject, verb and tense?

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@POPSICLE,

Pop I dunno about technical aspects of the grammar, but the sentence seems okay to me

"Yes, it does," says our household helper, who is probably also smarter than me

"Pops," what an interesting personal name," also says she

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@dalehileman,

Sorry, I don't quite understand what you meant?

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@InfraBlue,

lol, that is why I want to know, this sentence is so confused to me.

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@POPSICLE,

You don't have any ideas as to what they may be?

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@InfraBlue,

I meant, I guess the subject is I, and the tense is in past perfect.
But I really don't understand the part "...looked was..."?

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@POPSICLE,

POPSICLE wrote:

. . . "Everywhere I looked was something I had never seen before.

I believe the subject of the sentence is the noun clause
"Everywhere I looked".

The verb is "was" (past tense).

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@George,

Hello George, Thank you for your wonderful response.
But is the noun clause needs some conjunction word in between the action verbs ?

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@POPSICLE,

I don't understand your question.

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I just re-read this. I take back what I wrote.
I think "Everywhere I looked" is an adverb clause.
The subject is an implied "there".

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You could also look at it as an inverted-order sentence, making "something"
the subject.

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@POPSICLE,

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don't quite understand

Pop I dunno about technical aspects of the grammar (I don't remember enough of the formal rules to give you a good answer), but the sentence seems okay to me

"Yes, it does," says our household helper (hired housekeeper), who is probably also smarter than me

So Pop, any help whatever....

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@POPSICLE,

"Everywhere I looked there was something..." "There" should be added as the subject of "was."

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@POPSICLE,

"Everywhere I looked, I had never seen before."

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@dalehileman,

Please advise me a good grammar textbook, for me grammar has always been a weak point. I would be very grateful to you. You seem like a specialist Smile

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@diana2021,

Dalehileman last posted over three years ago, and he was in his eighties then.

I don’t think you’ll get a response.

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