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Grammar Quiz Unit 8

8.3 Inversion after adverbials Group B

Name: ______________________________________ Class: Total: /15

1 Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

by hardly little moment only sooner under until

Despite the fear, not for a moment did I lose hope that they’d rescue us in time.

1 Not _______________ we’d all climbed into the rescue boat did I have the time to
look back at the flooded valley that used to be our home.

2 _______________ did the tourists know that the earthquake would be followed by
a tsunami.

3 Not _______________ did the village have to be evacuated, but it was impossible to
return to it for a long time afterwards.

4 Only _______________ hiding under a massive dining table did we survive


the earthquake.

5 _______________ had we emerged from the damaged building than a second


quake, an aftershock, shook the ground.

6 No _______________ had they stopped the car than uprooted trees started flying
around.

7 _______________ no circumstances should you try to seek shelter under a bridge


during an earthquake.

_____/7

2 Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first.
Use no more than five words in a gap.

‘I didn’t intend to diminish the sufferings of flood victims in any way,’ the politician
explained.
‘In no way did I intend to diminish the sufferings of flood victims,’ the politician
explained.

1 We didn’t get out of the car until it was announced on the radio that the earthquake
was over.
Not until it was announced on the radio that the earthquake was over
_______________________ of the car.

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Grammar Quiz Unit 8
8.3 Inversion after adverbials Group B

Name: ______________________________________ Class:

2 Natural disasters not only cause loss of life and damage to property; their results may
include long-term pollution an epidemic diseases.
Not only _______________________ loss of life and damage to property; their
results may include long-term pollution and epidemic diseases.

3 He wasn’t in any doubt about what to do at any time.


At no time _______________________ about what to do.

4 The building we’d just left burst into flames a moment after we managed to get into
the helicopter.
Scarcely _______________________ to get into the helicopter when the building
we’d just left burst into flames.

_____/8

© Pearson Central Europe Sp. z o.o. 2021 PHOTOCOPIABLE Focus 5 SECOND EDITION (B2+/C1)

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