Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.1 for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Lindsay White from Pearson Education

Question

Rewrite the sentences so that the second sentence has a similar meaning to the first. Start with given word(s) and use inversion.

Answer

  1. Never before had I seen anything quite like it.
  2. No sooner had they finished the meal than the waiter brought the bill and asked them to leave.
  3. Had they bothered to check the weather forecast before they left, they might have seen that storms were predicted.
  4. Not until they reached the tiny island did they realise how basic things were.
  5. At no point did we even consider inviting our extended family, as they don't get on at all.
  6. Not only did he arrive late, but he also forgot the ring!