{"id":72344,"date":"2019-09-20T06:38:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72344"},"modified":"2019-09-20T06:38:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:38:27","slug":"inversion-of-subject-and-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/inversion-of-subject-and-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Inversion Of Subject And Verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">When the first word of the sentence is a negative, the main verb comes before the subject, as in a direct question. Common negative expressions are: <b>never, hardly, no sooner, scarcely <\/b>etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incorrect: <b>Never I have<\/b> seen such a sight.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: <b>Never have I <\/b>seen such a sight.<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect: <b>Hardly I have<\/b> had any rest for a week.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: <b>Hardly have I <\/b>had any rest for a week.<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect: <b>No sooner I had <\/b>gone to bed than someone knocked on the door.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: <b>No sooner had I<\/b> gone to bed than someone knocked on the door.<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect: <b>No sooner she completed <\/b>one project than she started working on the next.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: <b>No sooner did she <\/b>complete one project than she started working on the next. <b>OR <\/b><b>No sooner had she<\/b> completed one project than she started working on the next.<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect: <b>Scarcely I had<\/b> stepped out when it started raining.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: <b>Scarcely had I<\/b> stepped out when it started raining.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the first word of the sentence is a negative, the main verb comes before the subject, as in a direct question. Common negative expressions are: never, hardly, no sooner, scarcely etc. Incorrect: Never&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1518,857,1559],"class_list":["post-72344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hardly","tag-inversion","tag-never"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72345,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72344\/revisions\/72345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}