694 - Inversion

694 - Inversion

Author: Michael DiGiacomo Happy English October 23, 2023 Duration: 6:42
Had I known this English point was a pain in the neck for a lot of English learners, I would have covered it before. Can you imagine? How I missed this is beyond me!

Sometimes the word order of a sentence is changed. In particular, we sometimes reverse the order of the subject and verb. And this is called, inversion. For today’s English lesson, lets look at five situations where this happens.

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