Advanced Inversion — Synthesis — The Philosophy Café and the Examined Life
Grammar: Inversion
Free ESL grammar exercise on advanced inversion — synthesis themed around the philosophy café and the examined life. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on art, practising inversion. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
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: Inversion
- 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
Sample items
- ______ have philosophers found such a willing audience outside the university.
- ______ is the idea that virtue ethics is merely ancient history.
- So ______ did de Beauvoir pursue authenticity that she treated her own life as the primary philosophical text.
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