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Practice on inversion

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    Inversion in English
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  • Her grief was so great that she almost fainted. –> So…
    So great was her grief that she almost fainted
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  • Is the following sentence right or wrong? "She hardly had begun to speak when people started interrupting her."
    Wrong. Hardly had she begun to speak when people started interrupting her.
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  • Translate de following sentence: "Carla no hizo la tarea y su compañera tampoco"
    Carla didn't do her homework and neither did her classmate.
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  • He spent all his money. He even borrowed some from me. -> Not only…
    Not only did he spend all his money but he also borrowed some from me.
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  • Translate this sentence using inversion with "not until": "Me di cuenta de que me había olvidado el celular cuando llegué al trabajo"
    Not until I got to work did I realize that I had forgotten my phone.
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  • The gang didn't know that the police had them under surveillance. ->Little...
    Little did the gang know that the police had them under surveillance.
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  • Is the following sentence right or wrong? "Were I you, I wouldn't talk to him anymore."
    Right
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  • Put the words in order: have the he push to we all were would problems button,
    Were he to push the button, we’d all have problems.
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  • Put the words in order: sun the comes here. What type of inversion is it?
    Here comes the sun. Inversion can happen after here, and after there when it is as an adverb of place
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  • If I had realized what would happen, I wouldn’t have accepted the job. -> Had…
    Had I realized what would happen, I wouldn't have accepted the job.
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