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Virginia274 Posted 13 years ago
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Hi everyone,
Could you please help me to understand this kind of structure that is being used in the following sentence better?
Rarely have I heard a lecture with a such clear illustrations.
Thanks in advance.
Could you please help me to understand this kind of structure that is being used in the following sentence better?
Rarely have I heard a lecture with a such clear illustrations.
Thanks in advance.
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virginia274 this kind of structure It's subject-verb inversion after an initial adverbial expression with negative polarity. The same structure occurs with initial 'never' and 'only', to name two other examples. Never has he been known to do such a thing.
- virginia274 this kind of structure It's subject-verb inversion after an initial adverbial expression with negative polarity.
- The same structure occurs with initial 'never' and 'only', to name two other examples.
- Never has he been known to do such a thing.
- Only in the summer have we ever traveled there.
- CJ
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virginia274 this kind of structureIt's subject-verb inversion after an initial adverbial expression with negative polarity.
The same structure occurs with initial 'never' and 'only', to name two other examples.
Never has he been known to do such a thing.
Only in the summer have we ever traveled there.
CJ
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