Inversion Grammar

Inversions involve:

• making everything a question

• swapping the subject and verb

• making the object the focus of the sentence

• a change of intonation only

When do we use an inversion? (2 correct answers)

• in questions

• whenever you want

• when beginning a phrase with a negative adverb

• only in informal settings

Inversions are (3 correct answers):

• no different to normal sentences

• used for emphasis

• more formal

• used to draw attention to the action

Which is an inversion:

• I hardly ever come here.

• He never really contributes.

• Never I have been so excited.

• Never had I seen so many fish before.

What's the correct structure for an inversion?

• Subject - verb - auxiliary verb

• Verb - auxiliary verb - subject

• Auxiliary verb - subject - verb

• Subject - auxiliary verb - verb

Which is correct for an inversion?

• I have never

• Have never I

• I never have

• Never have I

Can you use inversions in conditionals?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe?

Which is the correct conditional inversion?

• If I had known, would I have helped.

• If had I known, I would have helped.

• Had I known, I would have helped.

• Had I known, would I have helped.

Which of these adverbs are considered negative? (multiple correct answers)

• Hardly

• Almost

• Scarcely

• Rarely

Make an inversion: I rarely go to the beach these days.

• Do I go to the beach rarely these days.

• Rarely I go to the beach these days.

• I go rarely to the beach these days.

• Rarely do I go to the beach these days.