T: You are a very careful student. Let's pick out the inversion sentences in the two reports.

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Seldom has drumming caused such conflict.

Had they known their neighbour is a drummer, they wouldn't have moved into the building.

No sooner had they moved in than the noise began and rarely did they get a full night's sleep.

Neither could they relax or read a book without plugging their ears.

Neither could we get rid of the smell of fish!

Rarely had Laurene seen McKay move so fast.

T: This is the Grammar we are going to learn: Complex sentence structure for emphasis.

Step V Grammar

Deal with Ex5 on Page 21. Ask students to do the exercises groups. Then check the answers with the whole class.

Students should keep in mind the following pattern sound formal and emphatic.

Sentences begin with a word that has a negative meaning.

Sentences have the word order of a question (inversion).

T: Please remember the grammar rules. There are a number of ways to add emphasis to your sentences in English. Use these forms to emphasize your statements when you are expressing your opinions, disagreeing, making strong suggestions, expressing annoyance, etc. Please look at the following.

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Inversion

Invert the word order by placing a prepositional phrase or other expression (at no time, suddenly into, little, seldom, never, etc.) at the beginning of the sentence followed by inverted word order.