INVERSION - Advanced English Grammar | Learn how to INVERT your sentences and the CONDITIONALS

inversion | conditionals | adverbials | advanced English grammar

In today's lesson I am going to teach you how to invert your sentences. Inversion is used to make what we say and write more formal and emphatic. But! Be careful. Overusing inversion will sound too dramatic and out of place. Many times this grammar is only seen in literary contexts.

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⌚️TIME STAMPS:
00:00 intro
00:45 What does “inversion” mean?
01:42 standard sentences and questions
02:48 adverbials
04:08 Rarely | Seldom
05:15 Why do we use “inversion”? Part 1
06:59 At not time | Not once
08:08 No sooner…than | Hardly…when | Scarcely…when | Barely…when
09:19 On no account | Under no circumstances
10:13 Not only…but
10:44 Only then |Only later | On in + place / season
12:00 Not all adverbials can begin an inverted sentence
12:43 TEST
14:09 Exceptions!
15:57 Why do we use “inversion”? Part 2
16:18 Inversion in Lord of the Rings (*The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002))
17:50 Inversion with the conditionals
18:21 First Conditional
19:31 Second Conditional
20:36 Third Conditional

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⌚TIME STAMPS:
00:00 intro
00:45 What does “inversion” mean?
01:42 standard sentences and questions
02:48 adverbials
04:08 Rarely | Seldom
05:15 Why do we use “inversion”? Part 1
06:59 At not time | Not once
08:08 No sooner…than | Hardly…when | Scarcely…when | Barely…when
09:19 On no account | Under no circumstances
10:13 Not only…but
10:44 Only then |Only later | On in + place / season
12:00 Not all adverbials can begin an inverted sentence
12:43 TEST
14:09 Exceptions!
15:57 Why do we use “inversion”? Part 2
16:18 Inversion in Lord of the Rings (*The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002))
17:50 Inversion with the conditionals
18:21 First Conditional
19:31 Second Conditional
20:36 Third Conditional

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