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Why does a negative adverbial phrase trigger inversion? [duplicate]
When a negative adverb (or adverbial phrase) is placed at the beginning of a sentence, we exchange the normal placement of subject and verb.
Why is that?
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Subject-auxiliary inversions not associated with questions [duplicate]
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Inversion in “only [adverb] have they”
Is there some rule governing the following, or similar, subject-auxiliary inversions (*"Rarely they do see the light of day", ...
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“Would rather [infinitive1] than [infinitive2]” vs. “would rather that [subjunctive]”"
I am aware of sentences like
Beth would rather study at the library than go to parties.
There is another type of using rather that:
She would rather that the plane leave early in the ...
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Auxiliary verb and adverb ordering
(I'm not really sure if the title is a correct definition of my problem at all)
I'm not a native English speaker, and I'm used to say:
Spaghetti suddenly can talk
But I've seen a phrase from a ...
