Inversion
Grammar · C1 · 10 printable sheets, each with an answer key.
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- Sheet 1 · 45 minInversion in news reporting: hardly had the polls closedNegative and limiting adverbials with inversion in news stories, key-word transformations and a dramatic news opening.Free
- Sheet 2 · 40 minInverted conditionals in business letters: should you requireFormal inverted conditionals with should, had and were in customer-service correspondence, then a formal reply.Premium
- Sheet 3 · 30 minGrammar explained: inversionNever have I, not only, no sooner: inversion after negative adverbials.Premium
- Sheet 4 · 30 minGrammar explained: inversion – conditionals and so / suchHad I known, should you need, were it not for, and so / such + inversion.Premium
- Sheet 5 · 20 minInversion: noticing it in a formal speechFind inverted structures in a graduation speech, match them to plain equivalents and check the basic rules.Premium
- Sheet 6 · 20 minInversion after never, rarely, seldom and at no timeRewrite sentences after negative adverbials, order inverted notices and write your own.Premium
- Sheet 7 · 20 minInversion with not only, hardly, scarcely and no soonerChoose correct forms and rewrite sentences with not only, hardly, scarcely and no sooner, then describe a day that went wrong.Premium
- Sheet 8 · 20 minInversion after only and not untilMatch sentence halves, rewrite sentences with only and not until, and check where the inversion goes.Premium
- Sheet 9 · 20 minInversion in conditionals: had, should and wereRewrite if-sentences with inverted conditionals, choose correct forms and write a formal notice to guests.Premium
- Sheet 10 · 20 minInversion review: correct, rewrite and useSpot errors, complete key word transformations with inversion and write the opening of a formal speech.Premium