Word order inversion, placing 'rarely' at the beginning, is used for emphasis or in a more formal register: 'Rarely does Kate visit...'
La inversión del orden de las palabras, colocando 'rarely' al principio, se usa para dar énfasis o en un registro más formal: 'Rarely does Kate visit...'.
| Task | Choose the sentence with the right word order |
|---|---|
| Answer | 4 |
| a | Kate does rarely visit the gym. |
| b | Kate does visit the gym rarely . |
| c | Does rarely Kate visit the gym. |
| d | Rarely does Kate visit the gym. |
| comment | When we want to speak in a more formal and literary way or we want to emphasize some idea in the sentence, we use the inversion. In this case the speaker wanted to point out the adverb 'rarely'. We put it in the first place. We place the auxiliary verb after the adverb 'rarely'. So the word order is: [adverb — auxiliary — subject — verb — object] |
| topic | word order |
| level | 2 |
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