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INVERSION
INVERSION
Inversion means change in word order. These following words or group of words are
followed by invesion when they begin a sentence.
Not until Never
Not only Under the circumstances Active
Does/Do/Did
Rarely With no exception
Has/Have/Had
In no way At no time Will/would S+V
Scarcely Seldom Modal
Only Hardly Passive
No longer No sooner To be
Nor No longer
Ex: 1. I have never seen such a beautiful rose
Never have I seen such a beautiful rose
2. Earthquake not only destroys the buildings but also the fragile ecosystem
Not only does the earthquake destroy the buildings but also the fragile ecosystem.
3. Rendang is seldom made of fish
Seldom is Rendang made of fish
1. Not until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries _____ as a unified
science.
a. Did ecology emerge
b. When ecology emerged
c. Ecology emerged
d. When did ecology emerge
3. Not until 1741 and the first installment of Benjamin Franklin’s General magazine
_______________ their first appearance in North America.
a. When did literary magazines begin to make
b. Did literary magazines begin to make
c. Literary magazine began to make
d. Began to make literary magazines
5. Not until fairly recently ____________ that land is not a limitless commodity.
a. Americans have realized
b. When have American realized
c. Have Americans realized
d. But Americans have realized
7. Only with early seventeenth-century observers did the music of the original
inhabitants of the
A B C
United States and Canada entered recorded history.
D