hi welcome again to Inga vidcom I'm Adam
today's lesson is about inversion now
what is inversion mean inversion is when
you change the order of something right
so we're looking at grammar usually you
know in a sentence a subject comes first
and then a verb today we're going to
look at situations where that is
reversed
now of course I'm sure you know that any
questions are you sure the verb comes
before the subject in all questions
that's what makes a question structure a
question structure however there are
other situations where we have this
inversion but we're looking at a
sentence we're not looking at a question
now the thing to understand about
inversions is that they are very
particular there are only a few
expressions that you're going to use
inversion with you can't put them in
just about in just any sentence that you
want the examples that I've written on
the board are the ones that you might
read or you might want to write there
are other situations that use this but
unless you're writing poetry or artistic
creative novels you don't need them and
you don't really need to worry about
them either
they're very rare it's very rare you'll
see them it's very very formal language
style and you'll recognize them
hopefully when you do see them so let's
start here when we have not only
generally speaking when we have a
sentence that begins with a negative
we're going to have inversion but
especially when you have not only you're
going to have inversion okay not only
did he
so there's your verb there is your
subject there is your verb okay we have
the helping verb the auxiliary verb to
start not only did he win and then we
have the but also to go with not only
this is like an expression that's fixed
you're always going to be looking at the
same thing not only did he win but he
also broke the record whatever not only
inversion but also under no
circumstances this is another expression
that you'll see regularly and again
we're looking at the negative
construction which is why we're looking
the inversion under no circumstances
should you call her call him okay
whatever you do don't call under no
circumstances circumstances basically
situation in no situation should you
call in no situation same idea okay
another negative nor what is nor is the
negative of or okay or nor again many
people don't use this word anymore it's
a little bit old-fashioned a little bit
high formality level but the mayor of
Toronto refused to resign nor do we
expect him to okay so after noir we
still have the inversion verb subject
verb verb subject okay I'm not sure if
you know the Mayor of Toronto he's very
famous now
we're not very proud but that's a whole
other story next so these are the three
negatives these two are also very
similar again very formal style but you
might see it you might want to use it in
your essays or whatever should you need
any help don't hesitate to call what
does this mean should you need if you
need should is just a more formal way to
say if if you need any help don't
hesitate to call should you need any
help don't hesitate to call now this is
a verb subject verb if we use if then
there's no issue then you have if which
is a conjunction adverb clause
conjunction subject verb should make it
verb subject verb had is the same thing
with the if but the different structure
of the conditional a different if
structure had I known you were coming I
would have changed if I had known if I
had known you were coming had I known
it's basically you're making the
sentence a little bit shorter a little
bit more formal you're starting with a
verb
subject and another verb okay past
perfect of course so these are the
conditionals these are the notes now we
have the comparatives when you're
comparing something when you're
comparing in action so you're using the
clause marker as not the preposition
like so John speaks Chinese as does Lucy
okay Lucy is actually the subject here's
the verb here's the subject now I could
put a period and put a new sentence this
so does Lucy same idea Lucy does as well
if I want the subject verb order but
when you start with as you're going to
invert the order this is a clause marker
adverb clause marker to compare more
important than love is money
now you're thinking well isn't love the
subject no money is the subject money is
more important than love but again style
you want to have a little bit different
different structure to impress the
reader to make it a little bit different
you start with the comparative and then
the verb and then the subject okay
because my then love this is an object
in this situation then we have a few
expressions here comes Jane now here is
not a subject here is here right
it's an turn adverbs in this situation
Jane comes here sounds a little strange
doesn't it that's why we invert
everything to make it a little bit more
natural
here comes Jane here comes Jane then we
have some expressions now it looks like
a question but we make it look like a
question to give it more emphasis to
give it more strengths man is it cold
out I'm not asking you is it cold out no
I know it's cold out I'm telling you
it's cold out I'm telling you very
strong is it cold out man am i hungry
means I am really hungry but make it
very strong we're making a point of
emphasis
sizing which is why we invert the
subject and the verb okay and of course
you have your question are you sure are
you happy did he come did you see that
whatever the situation is so there you
have it inversion it's not complicated
you have to just remember the particular
structures that use inversion when you
see it you'll understand what's going on
when you want to use it here's your list
pick one write your sentence make it
work of course go to ink vidcom we have
a quiz there you can practice these a
little bit more and we'll see you again
soon
you