UNIT 9 • GRAMMAR QUIZ • GROUP B

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Inversion after adverbials

1 Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

by hardly little only sooner under until

1 Not we’d all climbed into the rescue boat did I have the time to look back at the flooded valley that
used to be our home.
2 did the tourists know that the earthquake would be followed by a tsunami.
3 Not did the village have to be evacuated, but it was impossible to return to it for a long time afterwards.
4 Only hiding under a massive dining table did we survive the earthquake.
5 had we emerged from the damaged building than a second quake, an aftershock, shook the ground.
6 No had they stopped the car than uprooted trees started flying around.
7 no circumstances should you try to seek shelter under a bridge during an earthquake.

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2 Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use no more than five words in each gap.

1 We didn’t get out of the car until it was announced on the radio that the earthquake was over.
Not until it was announced on the radio that the earthquake was over of
the car.
2 Natural disasters not only cause loss of life and damage to property; their results may include long-term
pollution and epidemic diseases.
Not only loss of life and damage to property; their results may
include long-term pollution and epidemic diseases.
3 He wasn’t in any doubt about what to do at any time.
At no time about what to do.
4 The building we’d just left burst into flames a moment after we managed to get into the helicopter.
Scarcely to get into the helicopter when the building we’d just
left burst into flames.

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