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Inversion after negative and limiting adverbials

Practise putting the auxiliary before the subject after Never, Hardly, Not only, Little and similar openings.

14 questionsby Grove EnglishAdded 9 Oct 2026

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Choose the correct form

Choose the correct option to complete each sentence.

  1. Not only ___ late, but he also forgot the documents.

  2. Hardly ___ the house when it started to pour with rain.

  3. Under no circumstances ___ the door to strangers.

  4. Little ___ that the whole team was planning a surprise party for her.

  5. Only when the results were published ___ how serious the problem was.

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