INVERSION Unit 15 Language Diversity Teresa Pinto de Almeida Paula M Araújo Telma Coelho X PLORE 12 Teresa Pinto de Almeida Paula M Araújo Telma Coelho Adverb ID: 303116
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ADVERB
INVERSION
Unit 1.5. Language Diversity
Teresa Pinto de Almeida ▪ Paula M. Araújo ▪ Telma Coelho
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PLORE 12Slide2
Teresa Pinto de Almeida
▪
Paula M. Araújo ▪
Telma Coelho Adverb I have seldom seen such an extensive research work on endangered languages.
Seldom
such
an extensive research work on endangered languages.
Adverb
have I seen
Inversion Slide3
Adverb
She had never
seen such a beautiful manuscript before.Never such
a beautiful manuscript before.Adverb
had she seen
Inversion
Teresa Pinto de Almeida
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Paula M. Araújo
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Telma Coelho Slide4
When a negative adverb –
never, rarely, seldom, hardly ever – is placed at the beginning of a sentence for emphasis, the verb is moved in front of the subject. Rarely will you hear someone speaking
Tagalog.
Adverb Teresa Pinto de Almeida ▪
Paula M. Araújo
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Telma Coelho Slide5
Seldom
Hardly… than NeverRarelyOnly thenNot only... butNo sooner… thanScarcely
Only later
Here are some negative adverbs and adverb phrases that are often used with inversion.NowhereLittleOnly in this wayIn no wayOn no accountAt no timeUnder no circumstancesIn no circumstances Teresa Pinto de Almeida
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Paula M. Araújo
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Telma Coelho Slide6
Adverb
He had hardly
mentioned it when the audience protested. Hardly it when
the audience protested. Adverb
had he mentioned
Inversion
Teresa Pinto de Almeida
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Paula M. Araújo
▪
Telma Coelho Slide7
Adverb phrase
She no
sooner had accepted the job as a translator than she regretted it.No sooner
the job as a translator than she regretted it.Adverb phrase
had she accepted
Inversion
Teresa Pinto de Almeida
▪
Paula M. Araújo
▪
Telma Coelho Slide8
Adverb
I never
made that promise!Never that promise!
Adverbd
id I make
Inversion
In
the
Present
S
imple and the Past
Simple
tenses
add
the
auxiliary
verb
–
do / does /
did
–
and
make
other
necessary
changes
to
the
main
verb
to
build
the
inversion
.
Teresa Pinto de Almeida
▪
Paula M. Araújo
▪
Telma Coelho Slide9
Hardly/Barely/Scarcely... when
No sooner... than These expressions are used to mean that one action is followed very quickly by a second action. The verb describing the earlier event is usually in the past perfect tense.
Teresa Pinto de Almeida ▪ Paula M. Araújo
▪ Telma Coelho Slide10
Not until
I listened to the recordingsdid I believe we had completed our research.
Adverb phrase
The inversion occurs in the second part of the sentenceTeresa Pinto de Almeida
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Paula M. Araújo
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Telma Coelho Slide11
Only when
we finished our presentation on endangered languages did I feel calm.In the following expressions, the inversion occurs in the second part of the sentence.
Not since the last speaker died had our community listened to a Thracian song.
Not untilNot sinceOnly byOnly afterOnly when
Teresa Pinto de Almeida
▪
Paula M. Araújo
▪
Telma Coelho Slide12
Now Practise!
Teresa Pinto de Almeida
▪
Paula M. Araújo ▪ Telma Coelho Slide13
Bob
seldom gets invited to participate in international meetings because he doesn’t speak any foreign languages. We have
never seen such a ground-breaking study on the dominance of English worldwide.The chairman
at no time admitted to having excluded eastern companies from the deal.She not only is a thorough researcher but she is also a gifted linguist.1. Rewrite the sentences, putting the
highlighted words
at the beginning and making the necessary changes.
Teresa Pinto de Almeida
▪
Paula M. Araújo
▪
Telma Coelho Slide14
Maya has
not only learnt Japanese but she has also become an expert in Asian cultural traditions and customs.Our company will
under no circumstances dismiss workers who aren’t able to speak English.The conference
only began its opening session when the professor arrived to deliver his speech.Our world has
never
come so close to having a single global language as nowadays
.
Teresa Pinto de Almeida
▪
Paula M. Araújo
▪
Telma Coelho Slide15
Early linguists knew
so little about how languages evolve that they never embraced the concept of language death.That researcher had
hardly gathered any valid data when he published an inaccurate article on the death of a Polynesian dialect.
Teresa Pinto de Almeida ▪ Paula M. Araújo ▪ Telma Coelho Slide16
Seldom
does Bob get invited to participate in international meetings because he doesn’t speak any foreign languages.
Never have we seen such a ground-breaking study on the dominance of English worldwide.
At no time did the chairman admit to having excluded eastern companies from the deal.
Not
only
is she
a thorough researcher but she is also a gifted linguist
.
Not only
has Maya learnt
Japanese but she has also become an expert in Asian cultural traditions and customs.
Answer
key
Teresa Pinto de Almeida
▪
Paula M. Araújo
▪
Telma Coelho Slide17
Under
no circumstances will our company dismiss workers who aren’t able to speak English.
Only
when the professor arrived to deliver his speech did the conference begin its opening session.Never has our world come so close to having a single global language as nowadays.
So
little
did early linguists know
about how languages evolve that they never embraced the concept of language death
.
Hardly
had that researcher gathered
any valid data than he published an inaccurate article on the death of a Polynesian dialect.
Teresa Pinto de Almeida
▪
Paula M. Araújo
▪
Telma Coelho Slide18
Further Practice!
Inversion
Quiz 1
Teresa Pinto de Almeida
▪
Paula M. Araújo
▪
Telma Coelho