Gold Experience b2+ Inversion with negative adverbials | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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When we want to emphasise an event because it's rare, new, unexpected we can use negative or restrictive adverbials followed by inverted word order

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Not one bite did he ______

eat

eats

eaten

ate

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Rarely ______ you find someone like that

why

are

to

do

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Seldom ______ we stop to think about people in poorer countries

enough

did

do

quite

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Not a ______ would they give to charity

euro

money

penny

cash

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No sooner had one game finish ______ another was begun

so

than

that

after

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______ did she know that trouble was coming

Little

On no account

No sooner

Not one bite

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______ had we got over the flu when we were struck down with a stomach bug

Not only

Barely

Only in the summer

Too often

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Not ______ a thousand years will I go back there again (informal)

between

through

in

for

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Find sentence with correct inverted word order

Never before had I been there

Never before had been there I

I had been there never before

Never before I had been there

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They didn't try to help me = Not once did they try to help me

False

True

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