Advanced Grammar Presentation for Advanced Learners

Advanced grammar CAE

1. Inversion the negative adverbials
Second Meeting
Noni Agustina
English Language Education
Education Faculty

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES
•Students are able to use the inversion of the negative
adverbial
•Students are able to identify the inversion of the negative
adverbial in the text

3. What is inversion?
•The sentence with the negative adverb or adverbial phrase,
the word order of subject and verb change.
For instance
I had never seen so many people in one room.
Never had I seen so many people in one room. (Inversion form)

4. When do we use the inversion?
Time relationship
a. Time relationship at beginning of the sentence
e.gNo sooner had I put the phone down than it rang again
b. Inversion with phrases that use not
e.gNot until he apologizes will I speak to him again
c. Inversion with some time phrases that use only
e.gOnly after several weeks did she begin to recover

5. When do we use the inversion?
Frequency (negative adverbs such as never, rarely, hardly ever,
nowhere, little)
Examples
Never have I been to taken a back.
Rarely do they fail to get away for a holiday.
Seldom is that pop group out of the news.
Hardly ever did he wear a suit.
Little did she realisewhat was about to happen.
Nowhere was a replacement to be found

6. When do we use the inversion?
General emphasis
Examples
Only by patience and hard work will we find a solution
Only in this way do we stand any chance of success.

7. EXERCISE

8. EXERCISE

9. Assignment
•Find the news articles and identify the inversion the negative
adverbials by highlighting using colouring pens.

10. References
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University Press.
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advanced and proficiency. England: Pearson Education Limited.
Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).
Phillips, D. (2001). Longman complete course for the TOEFL test. New
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Sharpe, P. J. (2004). Barron’s. How to prepare the TOEFL. New York:
Barron’s Educational Series.