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Voytaszek Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Is inversion necessary here or we could use the normal word order?

Seldom do we have goods returned to us because they are faulty.


Could we say omit do here without loosing the same meaning?

  

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This is the less formal version that does not use inversion. We seldom have goods returned to us because they are faulty.

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  • This is the less formal version that does not use inversion.
  • We seldom have goods returned to us because they are faulty.
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This is the less formal version that does not use inversion.

We seldom have goods returned to us because they are faulty.
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VoytaszekCould we say omit do here without loosing the same meaning?

Seldom do we have goods returned to us because they are faulty.

Informally, perhaps, but generally "do" is not omissible without changing the construction. Your example has subject-auxiliary inversion, which occurs in declarative clauses only when certain

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