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Appendix 4
UNIT 119
1 Outside his house were playing two children on bicycles. X
*" Outside his house two children on bicycles were playing. •
2 The door opened and in went we. X
•" The door opened and in we went. \/ (We don't invert subject and verb when the subject
is a pronoun.)
UNIT 120
1 There never had been a tennis match like it. X
<•" There had never been a tennis match like it. v' (We don't use inversion when the
negative adverbial is not at the beginning of a clause.)
2 So tired David was that he went straight to bed. X
** So tired was David that he went straight to bed. ^
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