INVERSION
Exercises
Complete the sentences
Not until a monkey is several years old….. To exhibit signs of independence from its mother.
It begins
Does it begin
And begin
beginning
….. Did Jerome accept the job.
Only because it was interesting work.
Because it was interesting work
The work was interesting.
2. …great was the destruction that the south took decades to recover.
Very
Too
Such
So

…the Charges found themselves 7-0 down
Hardly had the game begun.
Hardly the game had begun
The game hardly begun
Hardly had begun the game
2. Not until the first land plants developed…
- Land animals appeared
Did land animals appear
Would land animals appear
The land animals appeared
Not until the 1960’s…. At Hugns Research Laboratories build the world’s first working laser.
Theodore Mainman
While Theodore Mainman
Did Theodore Mainman
Theodore Mainman did
Never before…. Such a wonderful child
I have seen
I saw
I had seen
Have I seen
Rewrite the following sentences so that there will be no more inversion
Not a word did he say.
Never was a decision more abundantly justified
On this depends the whole argument
Next comes the question to pay.
Among the guests were the mayor, the principal, the vice principal, the supervisor and students parents.
His book is not a biography in the ordinary sense; rather is it a series of recollections.
Mr. Campell does not recognize a change of opinion, but admits a change of emphasis; especially is he anxious at the present time to advance the cause of Liberal Evangelism.
Not only can the computer gather facts; it can also store them as fast as they are gathered and can pour them out whenever they are needed.
Nowhere else do the bamboos grow so fast.