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Windyjolt Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Simplyfing an inversion

Was I ever wrong!
Do I ever feel stupid for
trying to bluff him into thinking I was him.

I just dont get the inversion part what it means? Is there a way to simplfiy them if there is can you simplify them for me?
  

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Inversion involves the switching the position of the subject and verb: I was wrong ~ was I wrong. It sometimes includes an auxiliary verb: I feel stupid ~ do I feel stupid. It works just like inversion for asking a question.

— Philip

  • Inversion involves the switching the position of the subject and verb: I was wrong ~ was I wrong.
  • It sometimes includes an auxiliary verb: I feel stupid ~ do I feel stupid.
  • It works just like inversion for asking a question.
  • often replaces ?
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Inversion involves the switching the position of the subject and verb: I was wrong ~ was I wrong. It sometimes includes an auxiliary verb: I feel stupid ~ do I feel stupid. It works just like inversion for asking a question. ! often replaces ?
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Hi,

Was I ever wrong! I was very, very wrong.

Do I ever feel stupid for
trying to bluff him into thinking I was him. I feel very, very stupid for . . .

I just dont get the inversion part what it means? Is there a way to simplfiy them if there is can you simplify them for me?

The inversion makes this kind of statement very emphatic, and almost like a rhetor
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