Inversion and fronting

​Inversion and fronting

​Definitions and use

Multiple Select

Were it easy, everybody would be doing it.

• Inversion

• Fronting

Multiple Select

I bought a new camera. And a very expensive camera it was.

• Inversion

• Fronting

Multiple Select

At the back of the garden stood an old shed.

• Inversion

• Fronting

​Subject-auxiliary inversion

Multiple Select

___ a politician say ‘sorry’.

• Seldom does one hear

• Seldom one hears

• Seldom hears one

Multiple Select

No doubt ___ business in that way.

• do some dealers still do

• some dealers still do

• still do some dealers

Multiple Select

Not for a moment _ I would be offered the job, so I was amazed when I got it.

• thought I

• I did think

• did I think

Multiple Select

Our policy is quite clear. Under no circumstances ___ be given.

• refunds can

• can refunds

Multiple Select

___ must we turn against each other.

• Under no circumstances

• Never

• On no account

Multiple Choice

The team is going to complain about this and so is the referee.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

Little we knew the full extent of his involvement in the fraud.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

Under no circumstances will latecomers be admitted to the auditorium.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

Rarely the early explorers had encountered such friendly and positive attitudes.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

Not since Kubrick's 2001 has a director made such an intellectually challenging sci-fi movie.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

Only after climbing onto the roof he managed to escape from the rising flood waters.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

No doubt didn't he realise the consequences of his actions.

• Correct

• Incorrect

​Subject-verb inversion

Multiple Select

___ a beautiful rambling rose.

• All along one wall climbed

• All along one wall did climb

• Climbed all along one wall

Multiple Select

That was the final instalment of the book of the week. ___ .

• Next is the news

• The news is next

• Is the news next

Multiple Select

Select all sentences that are correct:

• Here's your coffee.

• There goes the phone. I'll answer it.

• Here go we again! Claude's just asked to borrow some more money from me.

Multiple Select

Select all sentences that are correct:

• Long live the King!

• So be it.

• Far be it from me to criticize, but aren’t you being a little unreasonable?

Multiple Choice

The sales director is resigning, as most of the marketing team.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

Over in the corner stood the three-metre tall statue of Buddha.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

The embassy refuses to intervene. Well, so it be.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

Now the time is for wise investors to think seriously about buying Treasury Bonds.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

The government's proposals are unrealistic, as those are of the opposition.

• Correct

• Incorrect

​Fronting Adjective and Prepositional phrases

​Fronting Objects and Complements

​In such instances, subject and verb are NOT inverted.

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct sentence:

• Beside the river bank stands a gnarled old oak tree.

• Beside the river bank a gnarled old oak tree stands .

Multiple Choice

The council promised to put on a great display. And put they on a great display.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

Opposite this house did the old city walls run.

• Correct

• Incorrect

​Front the following sentences:

Open Ended

In pairs choose all correct options and write them down as in :

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