INVERSION

Inversion means putting the verb before the subject to give an emphasis to the meaning of the sentence.

Rule1: Negative adverbs + aux. + subj. + verb + Obj + …
Example:
Hardly had he come out of the car when the bomb exploded.
Note: Negative adverbs include: Hardly ever, never, no sooner…., than, nor often, not only, only, only by, rarely scarcely ….. when, hardly ……. when, neither, seldom nor, nowhere, under no circumstance, etc.


Rule 2: Place adverse + aux. + subj + verb + obj + ……
OR
Place adverb + main verb + subj + obj + ……
Note: Place adverbs include; on a hill, in the valley
Under the table, along the northern frontier, etc
Example:
a. Just outside the gate was standing a beggar
b. Up went Mohan.

Rule 3: To such an extent….+ aux.+ subj+ verb+ obj + …
Example:
To such an extent has he analyzed the poem that no problem is left.

Also, Read our other Notes of English for Entrance Exams:

1. Article
2. Connectives
3. Number
4. Concord
5. Tense Use
6. Causative Verbs
7. Conditional Sentence
8. Voice
9. Reported Speech
10. Transformation
11. Gerund / To-Infinitive
12. Sentence Pattern
13. Agreement & Disagreement
14. Inversion
15. Adjectives
16. Embedded Question
17. Illogical participle Modifiers
18. Preposition
19. Question Tag
20. Pronouns
21. Commonly Confused Words
22. One Word Substitution
23. Words of Comparision
24. Specialists
25. Phobias
26. Killing & Killers
27. Graphy Words