Sentences fronted by ‘negative or limiting adverbials’, Rarely did he get low grades., Not often will Julian have free time. He found a job two days ago., The fronting of the following adverbs and adverbials requires inversion: ‘at no time / point’, ‘by no means’, ‘in no way’, ‘little’, ‘never’, ‘never again’, ‘no’, ‘not once’, ‘not only… but also’, ‘nowhere’, ‘only if’, ‘only in this way’, ‘only later’, ‘only now’, ‘only then’, ‘on no account’, ‘rarely’, ‘seldom’, ‘to such an extent’ and so on., Sentences fronted by ‘barely ever’, ‘hardly ever’, ‘no sooner… than’, ‘scarcely ever’, An inversion is required when such adverbials establish a particular order or sequence of events. Such adverbials put the ‘inversion’ in the adverbial clause and use ‘than’ or ‘when’ to connect it with the main clause., No sooner had I punched in than lots of guests arrived at the front desk., Hardly / Barely / Scarcely ever did he leave home when he was a child., Sentences fronted by ‘not + a phrase or a clause’, Not for a moment did I think I would get a part-time job at a five-star hotel., Not until the guiding counselor advised Julian to take an aptitude test did he know what to do., Inversion instead of ‘if’, This inversion is quite formal., Had Julian been more independent of his mother, he wouldn’t have been so insecure., Were it my problem, I would know how to solve it., Should you get nervous, try to chill out a bit., Sentences fronted by ‘adverbs/ adverbials of place’, is a rhetorical style used mainly in formal and literary texts. However, one may wish to use this type of inversion in everyday conversations in case one intends to sound more emphatic. In such cases, the structure will follow the pattern adverb(ial) of place + verb + subject. Notice that if the subject is a ‘personal pronoun’, there is no inversion., There goes Julian., There he goes., On the top of the hill, stood my mother’s family house., In ‘exclamations’ to put emphasis, Is this a splendid morning!, Am I hungry!, Isn’t it interesting!, After ‘as’, ‘neither’, ‘nor’, ‘so’ to express agreement, I don’t like going out. My mother doesn’t like going out either., I don’t like going out and neither does my mother. / I don’t like going out, nor does my mother., I got surprised at the job offer, as / so did my mother., However, if we want to express disagreement, there is no inversion., “Mom left home at the age of eighteen.” “I didn’t.”, Sentences fronted by ‘may’ meant to express hopes and wishes, May your job be a promising one., May the force be with you.

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