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Inversion after negative or restrictive adverbials

When we want to emphasize an event because it is new or weird we can use negative or restrictive adverbials followed by inverted word order: negative / restrictive adverbial + auxiliary + subject + verb

Inversion structures are usually quite formal which should only be used occasionally for emphasizing the message.

 

Negative or restrictive adverbials

 

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