Course: C2 - Proficiency GRAMMAR SUMMARY Lessons: 21 to 25 Emphatic language - Negative Inversion - Complex inversions ~ Fronted Expressions Negative inversions To make our language emphatic, we can invert the subject and the auxiliary verb after certain expressions: Under no circumstances No sooner Not only Then invert subject and auxiliary verb Scarcely Never a Little der in English: subject + verb jon word order: auxiliary verb + subject Never again can | do, There may included in t 1e auxiliary we need is did) — Little did | know he was angry. When the inversion refers to time, the second clause begins with thanor when: eg. No sooner had he arrived in the city THAN his bag was stolen. Scarcely did | turn on the television WHEN the news started. Perfectly Spoken* Page 1of3 ‘All course lessons and associated contetiscopyrightot Perfectly Spoken Limited - © Perfectly Spoken 2020. llrightsreservedCourse: C2 - Proficiency GRAMMAR SUMMARY Lessons: 21 to 25 Emphatic language - Negative Inversion - Complex inversions ~ Fronted Expressions Complex inversions Subject and auxiliary verb are also inverted ... 1. After So + adjective’: eg. Iwas exhausted so | went te that | went to bed. 2. pressions of place: eg. The prime the prime If she had stud Ifyou should need a Perfectly Spoken* Page 20f3 ‘All course lessons and associated contetiscopyrightot Perfectly Spoken Limited - © Perfectly Spoken 2020. llrightsreservedCourse: C2 - Proficiency GRAMMAR SUMMARY Lessons: 21 to 25 Emphatic language - Negative Inversion - Complex inversions ~ Fronted Expressions Fronted expressions To make our language emphatic, we can also front certain words (an inversion is not necessary afterwards}: 1. Question words eg. ‘She was very ang! ¥ angry, I don't know. I don't know — > Where he is I just don't kno eg. The fact yo I don't know — > It isa mystery where he is. Perfectly Spoken* Page 30f3 ‘All course lessons and associated contetiscopyrightot Perfectly Spoken Limited - © Perfectly Spoken 2020. llrightsreserved