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The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.1 - On the road for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the text. What is so special about Otto the car?
  2. Read the sentences. What do you notice about the word order? Rewrite the sentences beginning with if.
  3. Choose the correct alternative to complete the rule. Then find another example of inversion in a conditional clause in the text.
  4. Look at sentences 1-4. Notice how inversion is also used after negative adverbials to add dramatic effect. Find two examples in the text in Exercise 6A.

Answer

a)

The car, Otto, has a world record for having been to more countries than any other car.

b)

The word order has been inverted, ie. auxiliary + subject + verb clause.

  1. If the car had been a modern car, it would never have completed the journey.
  2. If he hadn't mastered the mechanics himself, they might have experienced more breakdowns.

c)

  • formal
  • And one that Holtorf says would have been impossible to achieve had he tried with a modern car.

d)

  • Never before has a car travelled so many miles.
  • Not once did the car break down so badly that he couldn't fix it.