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(b) An adverbial modifier with a negative meaning opens the sentence.
Here belong such
adverbial modifiers as:
in vain, never, little,
etc. In this case the auxiliary
do
must be used if
the predicate does not contain either an auxiliary or a modal verb.
In vain
did
the eager Luffey and the enthusiastic strugglers
do
all that skill
and experience could suggest.
(Dickens)
Little
had
I
dreamed
,when I pressed my face longingly against Miss Minns’s
low greenish
window-panes, that I would so soon have the honour to be her
guest.
(Cronin)
Never before and never since,
have
I
known
such peace,
such a sense of
tranquil happiness.
(Cronin)
(c) Adverbial modifiers expressed by such adverbs as
so, thus, now, then,
etc. placed at the
head
of the sentence, if the subject is expressed by a noun.
Only once
did
he
meet
his match in tennis.
In only one respect
has
there
been
a decided lack of progress
in the domain of medicine,
that is in the time it takes to become a qualified practitioner.
(Leacock)
I do not care to speak first. Nor
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