CPE 2021 – Inversions today class about the is.

Do you remember?

Inversions are used to:

- make sentences (slightly) more __________.
- add __________.

1 Make complete sentences from the following, adding articles and changing the verb
forms when necessary.

1 Never/I see/such/brilliant acting.

2 Not only/Jon/play/piano/he also/play/clarinet.
3 Hardly/we/leave/building/when it/catch fire.
4 Not until ten years later/they/find out/truth.
5 Only under exceptional circumstances/prisoners/be/allowed to work.
6 Not even after I/explain it three times/he/understand/what I/mean.
7 So thick/fog/be/I/decide/not to go out.
8 Only if both sides agree/settlement/be reached.

2 Complete these sentences in a way that they’re true for you.

1 Never before…
2 Only (once) in my life…
3 Scarcely… when…
4 No sooner…than
5 Hardly…when…
6 Not until (last month)…
7 Seldom…
8 Rarely…
9 Had it not been for…

Bibliography:

Naylor, H; Hagger, S. Paths to Proficiency. 1992. Harlow: Pearson.

Capel, A.; Sharp, W. Objective Proficiency. 2013. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.