Inversion exercises — Set 1: Negative Adverbial Inversion (Worksheet)
Worksheet • 20 questions • 15 min
Never such a beautiful sunset.
Seldom so quickly.
Hardly the door when the phone rang.
At no time aware of the danger.
Rarely such talent in a young musician.
Not once to help with the project.
Little that the project would fail.
Under no circumstances this building during the drill.
Barely when the lights went out.
In no way responsible for the accident.
Never before so many complaints about a single product.
On no account this door during the examination.
Not for a moment that he was lying.
Nowhere else such authentic Italian food.
Scarcely the news when she burst into tears.
Here the bus at last!
The manager never the office before 6 p.m.
There the children, running across the field.
She rarely mistakes in her work.
Down the heavy rain, flooding the streets.
Inversion exercises online (Worksheet)
Practise inverting the subject and auxiliary verb when negative or restrictive adverbs (Never, Rarely, Seldom, Hardly, Barely, Little) are placed at the front of a sentence. Also learn to distinguish these from locative inversion (Here comes..., There goes...) and sentences where the negative adverb is not fronted.