INVERSION Certain adverbs and adverb of phrases can be placed at the very beginning of a sentence or clause in order to give
an extra emphasis. Ih this case the sentence will be positive and the structure will be question and the meaning will
be negative. They are followings:
Hardle ever, hardly … when, in no circumstance, neither, nor, never, no sooner … then, not only, not till, nowhere, on no account, only by, only in this way, only then, only when, scarcely ever, scarcely … when, seldom, so. -
I have never before been asked to accept a bribe.
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Never before have I been asked to accept a bribe.
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He didn’t realize that he had lost it till he got home.
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Not till he got home did he realize that he had lost it.
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He became so suspicious that I saw something.
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So suspicious did he become that I saw something.
