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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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[help] Inverted Sentence

Only as a last resort should you attempt to create new materials.

My question is why "should" is ahead of "you" in this sentence.

Thanks a lot!
  

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Anonymous Only as a last resort should you attempt to create new materials. My question is why "should" is ahead of "you" in this sentence. Thanks a lot!

— Paco2004

  • Anonymous Only as a last resort should you attempt to create new materials.
  • My question is why "should" is ahead of "you" in this sentence.
  • Thanks a lot!
  • This is a kind of negative inversion.
  • , and its heading often triggers a subject-verb inversion.
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Anonymous
Only as a last resort should you attempt to create new materials.

My question is why "should" is ahead of "you" in this sentence.

Thanks a lot!

This is a kind of negative inversion. "Only" is a quasi negative adverb along with "barely", "rarely", "scarcely", "seldom", "little", etc., and its heading often
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Nice examples... I was rarely aware of these types of sentences.

btw, there's a list of 18 types of subject/verb inversion:
http://www.testmagic.com/grammar/explanations/inversion.htm

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