Examples
Inversion after initial negatives: I will never do that again
- Rarely have I eaten better food.
- Hardly ever does he come to class on time.
- Not until a frog develops lungs does it leave the water and live on the land.
- Not only was Mary Ann Shadd famous for helping escaped slaves, she was also the first African Canadian woman to establish a newspaper.
- Hardly ever have there been so many choices for young people entering the work force as there are today.
Inversion after other structures:
- So high is Mount Everest that climbers can take only a couple of steps per minute as they near the summit.
- Off the coast of North Carolina lie the Barrier Islands, a popular summer resort area.
- Only after the earthquake had taken place did the lack of safety measures become obvious.
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Famous quotes containing the word examples:
“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)