Inversion sentence? "Inside the protective fruit are the seeds that must be spread for new plants to grow."

Question

Could I say this is an inversion sentence? (Why this sentence is made is that the subject is too long; I think.) I am not familiar with English grammar, so please teach me.

Answer 1

In the sentence above, the position of the adverb of place ("inside the protective fruit") is inverted, that is, it comes before the subject ("the seeds"). In its normal order, the adverb comes AFTER the verb ("the seeds are inside the protective fruit").

However, your sentence has a noun clause, which answers the question, "what seeds are you referring to?". The answer is: "the seeds that must be spread [for new plants to grow]".

If we put the adverb at the end of the sentence, it will be as follows:
The seeds that must be spread for new plants to grow are inside the protective fruit.

As you can see, as far as style goes, the sentence is much more effective with the inversion of the adverb of place, which requires the verb to be placed BEFORE the subject ("seeds"):
Inside the protective fruit are the seeds that must be spread for new plants to grow.

In sum, it is all a matter of stylistics.

Answer 2

No, I don't think so.
Inversion sentences, also called anastrophe in literary style and rhetoric, the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence, as, in English, the placing of an adjective after the noun it modifies (“the form divine”), a verb before its subject (“Came the dawn”), or a noun preceding its preposition (“worlds between”). Inversion is most commonly used in poetry in which it may both satisfy the demands…