Cover of the textbook On Screen B2+ - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7c - Grammar in use for the textbook On Screen B2+ - Student's Book with authors Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley from Express Publishing

Question

  1. Read the joke. Look at the underlined phrases. How do we form inversions? Is there a similar structure in Polish?
  2. Read the examples. Then rewrite the sentences as inversions.

Answer

a) Inversions are formed by changing the word order of a sentence, usually to emphasise the subject or the verb.

b)

  1. had the sun set when we saw the first shooting star
  2. was he by the sight of the Great Pyramid that he couldn’t speak
  3. she studied history, she would have know about the Aztecs
  4. do we see Saturn and Mercury in the sky together
  5. is he an astronaut but he's a university professor as well