La Syntaxe : Les Inversions

Question 1

Les inversions : questions directe et indirecte

Answer 1

Question directe :
Avec pronom interrogatif : when did he come? = Inversion did avant sujet.

Question indirecte pas d’inversion ! Jamais !!
Do you happen to know when THE STATION IS ? = Ordre normal

Question 2

Les inversions : exprimer une emphase

Answer 2

Inversion auxiliaire sujet lorsqu’un terme (semi-)négatif, restrictif ou intensificateur se trouve en début de phrase.

Question 3

Les inversions : terme négatif

Answer 3

Never
Not only
not until
Not once
Not sooner
Nowhere
Nor

Question 4

Les inversions : termes restrictifs

Answer 4

Hardly/ scarcely
Seldom/ rarely
Little
Only after
Only then
Only when
Only thus

!! Parfois inversion n’est pas direct après :
I.e : ONLY WHEN he entered the room, DID WE notice that….

Question 5

Les inversions : terme intensificateur

Answer 5

Well do they.. remember…
Often does she …

Question 6

Inversion auxiliaire sujet ou verbe sujet avec CC lieu, CC temps ou CC manière ou adjectif.

Answer 6

–> surtout avec be et ses synonymes : stand / lie ou live

In the forest, stood the den of the giant.
In the house lived H.D Thoreau

Adjectif attribut :
GREAT was his joy when…

SO + adjectif / such pour intensifier
So excited was he….
Such was his anger..

As ou Than :
He behaves as did his father a long time ago.
Noise pollution generally received less attention than DOES air pollution.

Question 7

Inversion moi exprimer une supposition

Answer 7

Valeur modal d’ireel
Were I to tell you the whole story = if I were to tell you
Had I know the whole… If I…

• Should this happen again = if this should happen = souvent testé !

Question 8

Inversion avec reprise eliptique
Cf reprise eliptique

Answer 8

I must hurry up, so must you
He is very fond or novels, so am I.
He can’t swim, neither can his sister.
They aren’t hungry, neither am I.
We don’t eat much bread, neither do our children / our children don’t either / nor do our children.

Question 9

Inversion avec des expressions

Answer 9

Under no circumstances
On no account
At no time did she aggre (a aucun moment)
Here is my wife
Here we go (c’est parti mon kiki)
Here comes the bus : voici le bus
Now is the best time for….