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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Inversion after negative introductions

Complete the following sentences to make a more
dramatic version of the sentence printed above it. The
first one has been done for you. •

(YOU CAN SEE THE KEY, CLICKING THE COMMENT)

1 You mustn't press this red button under any
circumstances.
Under no circumstances must you press this red
button.
2 She'd only just stubbed out one cigarette when she
lit another.
Hardly .
3 We didn't see a soul all day.
Not .
4 As soon as I put the phone down, it rang again!
No sooner .....................................................................
5 He spoke so quietly that I didn't hear a thing he said.
So .
6 They didn't win a game all season.
Not .
7 Life is like that.
Such .
8 She didn't realise who he was until she'd been
speaking to him for ten minutes.
Only after .
9 Kate not only spilled wine on the carpet but she also
broke six glasses.
Not only .

10 I'd never seen such a gigantic fish before!
Never !
Source: Focus on Grammar for advanced learners. Cambridge U. P.

1 comment:

  1. Key:
    ~ Mind Your Manners
    2 Hardly had she stubbed out one cigarette when she lit
    another. 3 Not a soul did we see all day. 4 No sooner did/had
    I put the phone down than it rang again. 5 So quietly did he
    speak that I didn't hear a thing he said. 6 Not a (single) game
    did they win all season. 7 Such is life. 8 Only after she'd been
    speaking to him for ten minutes did she realise who he was.
    9 Not only did Kate spill wine on the carpet, but she also broke
    six glasses. 10 Never (before) had I seen such a gigantic fish!


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