Доклад: Английская грамматика /english/

May you be happy and crazy !

3.When the sentence is introduced by there, e.g. There was no wind. ~~~~~~

There have been many such incidents.

4.In the following constructions, e.g. You can do it and so can i.

I must leave now.-So must i.

I have never liked detective stories.-Neither have i.

5.In sentences introducing direct speech, e.g. "This is what I want", said my friend.

"I think it's all delightful", murmured Emily.

Inversion may be the result of emphasis, when the author wishes to produce a certain stylistic effect. Here we must distinguish between the following cases:

6.The adverbial modifier of place or time opens the sentences (what is rare).

In this case the subject is generally lengthy or modified by a phrase or a clause,

e.g. Down below spread the town with its wide streets, beautiful buildings, bridges and green parks.

In the centre of the room of the his flat stood the head of the family old Joly on himself.

7.Adverbial modifiers expressed by such words as so, thus, then, here, now, there open the sentence.

In this case the subject is expressed by a noun, e.g. So ended the terrible siege of my flat.

Thus began their friendship.

BUT: There she goes. (The subject is expressed by a pronoun.)

8.An adverbial modifier with a negative meaning opens the sentence: never in vain, little, etc.,

e.g. Never have I been so happy as now.

Little did he think about it then.

In vain did he try to persuade his friends to follow his example

9.The emphatic particle only (not only...but) =

The adverbs hardly, scarcely (correlated with | the conjunction when) |open the sentence

The adverb so sooner (correlated with the | conjunction than) |

Or conjunction nor =

e.g. Only then did he understand it.

No sooner had the German pilot caught sight of the soviet plane than began to fire.

Hardly had we started when it began to rain.

They did not come to the meeting. Nor did they telephone the secretary.