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Unit 10 Grammar 1
Unit 10 Grammar 1
Unit 10 Grammar 1
INVERSION WITH
NEGATIVE
EXPRESSIONS
INVERSION WITH
NEGATIVE EXPRESSIONS
1. Identify the inversion with a negative expression.
2. What would a less formal phrase be?
3. Can you notice an error?
= Customer feedback doesn’t only demonstrate
Not only does
customer feedback
demonstrate
how popular this
product is, than
but it
also provides
valuable data on
user experience.
INVERSION WITH
NEGATIVE EXPRESSIONS
1. Identify the inversion with negative expressions.
2. What would less formal structures be?
Little do people realize how easy it is to use
science to disprove their theories.
People really don’t realize…
Hardly has one theory been disproved when
another even more baseless one emerges.
One baseless theory has just been disproved when…
2. Seldom __________
did he give (he / give) lectures about his
ideas to the public.
Grammar wrap-up
What’s right? What’s wrong?
1 Rarely do scientists make
Right.
such fantastic discoveries.
2
Hardly had he taken the Wrong: Hardly had
picture than he saw the he taken the picture
mysterious aircraft. when he saw…