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LONGMAN ENGLISH GRAMMAR PRACTICE

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7.8 Viewpoint adverbs, connecting adverbs and inversion7.8C Inversion after 'negative adverbs', etc. [> LEG 7.59, App 19]Study:Some adverbs like never and little have a 'negative effect' and we sometimes refer to them as'negative adverbs'. We can use them in the ordinary way [> 7.4]:I have never seen so much protest against a government.Michael little realizes how important this meeting is.If we begin a sentence with a 'negative adverb' we must follow with the word order we use in aYes/No question [> 13.1]. Beginning with a negative is very formal:Never have I seen so much protest against a government.Little does Michael realize how important this meeting is.We use this kind of inversion, in formal style, after:- 'negative adverbs': e.g. hardly, hardly ever, never, rarely, seldom.- phrases with only. e.g. only after, only then, only when (Only then did I learn...).- so + adjective: So difficult was this problem, Einstein couldn't solve it.Write:Rewrite these sentences so that they begin with the words in italics.1 There has never been such a display of strength by the workers.. Кшг.r. №4. Шш.-Нт. аш>Н

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