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iNVERSIONS
USE We use inversion in several different situations in English. Inversion just means putting the verb before the subject. We usually do it in question forms:
EXAMPLES Normal sentence: You are tired. (The subject is 'you'. It's before the verb 'are'.)
Question form: Are you tired? (The verb 'are' is before the subject 'you'. They have changed places. This is called inversion.)
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With other verbs tenses, we change the place of the subject and the auxiliary verb (the first auxiliary verb if there is more than one). We don't move the other parts of the verb:
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When do we use inversion? Of course, we use inversion in questions. You can read more about this here. But we also sometimes use inversion in other cases, when we are not making a question.