Exercises: Emphasising and Highlighting Important Information

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Von Autor/in Heidrun Legner-Hackney, Sarah Klein-Adolph, Antonia Renon

Exercise A

Use inversion to put emphasis on the following statements.

Exercise B

Choose the correct option for each gap.

1 ______ allow such terrible things to happen again.
a) Never again we will
b) No way will
c) Under no circumstances will we
d) Little will we

2 ______ started the game than group of hooligans set off fireworks.
a) Barely had they
b) No sooner they had
c) Barely they had
d) No sooner had they

3 ______ break all the rules, but they also put everyone in great danger.
a) Not only they
b) Not only did they
c) Not only have they
d) Not only they have

4 ______ know how widely spread his tweet would become.
a) Little he
b) Little he did
c) Little did he
d) Little he has

Exercise C

Change the following sentences using Do-emphasis.

Exercise D

Identify if inversion or do-emphasis is used in the following examples and underline the structure.

Stand
Autor/in
Heidrun Legner-Hackney
Sarah Klein-Adolph
Antonia Renon