Rules in the School Library
Grammar Focus
Time and Place, Inversion
We use phrases with prepositions and adverbs when we describe time and place. They are usually
placed at the end of a clause or sentence. However, some emphatic expressions should be placed at the
beginning of aclause or sentence and need to have an unusual structure, called inversion.
Choose a phrase from the box below to complete each of the following sentences. Use a capital
letter to begin the first word of each sentence.
1. The blueprints for the new buildingare on hold (
2. A radical change in the formula fora new drug will take place (
3. The scientific program has aired continuously (
) did scientists decide that air, earth and fire were not really elements at all.
5. The Earth pulls on all objects with a force of gravity ( L).
6. My adviser will have been teaching for forty years (
7. Most of the undergraduate students in the Faculty of Global Studies study abroad (
8. All the classes during the first period are required to start (
) were wriggling angleworms.
f
10. Lithium batteries are prohibited to be sent (
a. by air in many countries
b. by the end of the school
year
at the beginning of the
year
C。
d. until the end of October
e. not until the eighteenth century
f. since April 5, 2009, on the QBS Television Network
g. during their second year
h. under piles of leaves
i. downward, that is, toward the center of the Earth
on time, at 9:00 in the morning
j.
