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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

emphasis inversion

I'd like to know whether these sentences is correct:

Rarely can anyone have witnessed such an amazing sight as the view from space.
Litte can Shakespeare's contemporaries have guessed how enduring his plays would prove to be.

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Nancy
  

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Anonymous I'd like to know whether these sentences are correct Yes, they are, but the 2nd should begin with 'Little'. Fronted, negative-like adverbials cause S-V inversion: Rarely can anyone... Little can Shakespeare's....

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous I'd like to know whether these sentences are correct Yes, they are, but the 2nd should begin with 'Little'.
  • Fronted, negative-like adverbials cause S-V inversion: Rarely can anyone...
  • Little can Shakespeare's....
  • Hardly had I...
  • Seldom were we....
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AnonymousI'd like to know whether these sentences are correct
Yes, they are, but the 2nd should begin with 'Little'. Fronted, negative-like adverbials cause S-V inversion:

Rarely can anyone...
Little can Shakespeare's....
Hardly had I...
Seldom were we....
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