Advanced Inversion — Synthesis

Article excerpt · target grammar marked

On a Tuesday evening in Lyon, so energised has the movement become, and so wide has it spread across three continents, that Marc Sautet could scarcely have imagined the institution he was seeding. Seldom does an intellectual revival announce itself this modestly.

Grammar Reference · Advanced Inversion — Synthesis

Negative adverbial

Seldom does philosophy announce itself this modestly. — auxiliary before subject after fronted negative

Literary so/such

So wide has it spread that Sautet could scarcely have imagined it. — so + adjective triggers inversion

Fronted predicative

Gone is the assumption that philosophy belongs to institutions. — predicative adjective/past-participle fronted

Periodic-sentence

Not only does it challenge the academy, but it repositions the student. — not only…but also for rhetorical climax

01Exercise 1 — Form · Write the Correct Form

Advanced Inversion — Synthesis

1. have philosophers found such a willing audience outside the university.

2. is the idea that virtue ethics is merely ancient history.

3.So did de Beauvoir pursue authenticity that she treated her own life as the primary philosophical text.

4.Not only the examined life demand courage, but it also demands honesty about one's own bad faith.

5.Such the paradox of hedonic adaptation that more pleasure reliably produces less satisfaction.

6.Little Aristotle realise that his telos would one day be cited in a management self-help bestseller.

02Exercise 2 — Transform

rewrite with the new structure

1.We have never seen a more complete rejection of the hedonic treadmill than in Stoic philosophy.

2.The age of philosophy as an elite academic pursuit is finished.

3.The concept of radical freedom is so unsettling that most people avoid confronting it directly.

03Exercise 3 — About You

in your notebook

Personalise: complete five sentences about yourself using the target grammar.

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