Answer — Exercise 6
7c - Grammar in use·On Screen B2+ - Student's Book
Question
- Read the joke. Look at the underlined phrases. How do we form inversions? Is there a similar structure in Polish?
- 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)
- had the sun set when we saw the first shooting star
- was he by the sight of the Great Pyramid that he couldn’t speak
- she studied history, she would have know about the Aztecs
- do we see Saturn and Mercury in the sky together
- is he an astronaut but he's a university professor as well