INVERSION

INVERSION IN TOEFL
#1 In sentences started with adverb of place
#2 In sentences started with negative expressions
#3 In conditional sentences
#4 In comparisons

INVERTED
PREDICATE SUBJECT
WORDS
#1 INVERSION WITH EXPRESSIONS OF
PLACE
 ADVERBS “HERE, THERE, NOWHERE”

Here HELPING
VERB
There (do, did, does, SUBJEC PREDICATE
Nowhere modal verb, T
have/has/had)
• Here is the book that you lent me.
• There are the keys that I thought I lost.
• Nowhere have I seen such beautiful
weather.
 CHOOSE THE INVERTED SENTENCES.
• The athletes that have been residing in Bandung are here

• Here are the athletes that have been residing in Bandung

• The place where I want to study is here

• Here is the place where I want to study

• We can find such a talented athlete as Nadya nowhere in Indonesia

• Nowhere in Indonesia can we find such a talented athlete as Nadya

• Here comes the next famous badminton player

• The next famous badminton player comes here

 OBJECT OF PREPOSITIONS

Preposition
PREDICATE SUBJECT
of place
 EXAMPLES:

•In the closet are the clothes that you want.

•Around the corner is Sam’s house.
•Beyond the mountains lies the town where
you will live.
 IDENTIFY THE SUBJECT AND THE
PREDICATE OF EACH SENTENCE!

• Behind the colosseum are the dorms of the athletes.

• Across the river lies a building which made
Muhammad Ali famous.
• Below the wardrobe is the nest of the termites.
#2 INVERSION WITH NEGATIVES
 COMMON NEGATIVE WORDS IN TOEFL

no | not | never | neither | nor

barely | hardly | only | rarely | scarcely |

seldom
•I barely passed the test

- Barely did I pass the test

•I rarely/scarcely/seldom go out from my room

- Rarely do I go out from my room

 EXAMPLES:

Not once did I miss a question.

I didn’t miss a question once /

I missed a question not once.
 MORE EXAMPLES:

• Never has Mr. Jones taken a vacation.

• Mr. Jones has never taken a vacation.

• At no time can the woman talk on the telephone.

• The woman can talk on the telephone at no time.
#3 INVERSION IN CONDITIONALS
Posisi Subject dan Predicate dapat diubah apabila diawali
dengan had, should, or were, untuk kalimat conditional dan if bisa
dihilangkan.

Had|Should|Were
• If he had taken more time, the results would have been better.
• Had he taken more time, the results would have been better.
 MORE EXAMPLES:

• Should you need further information, please read the regulation carefully.
• Had/were you had good endurance, you wouldn’t lose in the match

• If you had gone, the world would have been better

• Had you gone, the world would have been better
• If you hadn’t been here, the street would not have stuck
• Had you not been here, the street would not have stuck
#4 INVERSION IN COMPARISONS
Posisi Subject dan Predicate setelah comparison
(perbandingan) dapat diubah, namun tidak harus.

My sister spends more hours in the office than John.

My sister spends more hours in the office than John does.
My sister spends more hours in the office than does John.
I can run faster than Galih does.
I can run faster than Galih.
I can run faster than does Galih.

The Floating Market provides more menus than Dusun Bambu.

The Floating Market provides more menus than Dusun Bambu does.
The Floating Market provides more menus than does Dusun Bambu.
QUIZ
 NUMBER 1

On the second level of the parking lot…

(A) is empty
(B) are empty
(C) some empty stalls are
(D) are some empty stalls
 NUMBER 2

Only in extremely dangerous situations stopped...

(A) will be the printing presses
(B) the printing presses will be
(C) that the printing presses will be
(D) will the printing presses be
 NUMBER 3

The report would have been accepted in checking its accuracy…

(A) if more care
(B) more care had been taken
(C) had taken more care
(D) had more care been taken
 NUMBER 4

The results of the current experiment appear

to be more consistent than_____ the results of
any previous tests.
(A) them
(B) were
(C) they were
 NUMBER 5

In geometry, a tangent is a straight line _____ _ a curve at only one

point.
__ (A) it touches
__ (B) whose touching
__ (C) its touching
__ (D) that touches
 NUMBER 6

Most folk songs are ballads ______ have simple words and tell
simple stories.
(A) what
(B) although
(C)when
(D) that
 NUMBER 7

_________________________of all modern

domestic poultry is the red jungle fowl is
widely believed.
(A) The ancestor
(B) The ancestor is
(C) How the ancestor
 NUMBER 8

______________________they are tropical

birds, parrots can live in temperate or
even cold climates.
(A) Despite
(B) Even though