Shall we practise a little? 👩🏻‍🏫 I will post several sentences below. Please, invert them. Ready?😉

People have never been more the masters of their environment.

People didn’t understand the effects of global warming until recently.

We didn’t know about what 2022 had in store.

I will publish the answers tomorrow ✅
To wrap up our practice session, please write your own inverted sentence in the comments ✍️

Here are the answers to the inversion exercise 😉


Never have people been more the masters of their environment.

Not until recently did people understand the effects of global warming.

Little did we know about what 2022 had in store.

Hope you’ve learned a new complex grammatical structure for IELTS Writing 🤓

Please note that using it once in your Task 2 essay is enough 👌🏻

If you’d like to find a more in-depth explanation of inversion and learn about other kinds of inversion, here’re two amazing lessons by BBC Learning English:

👉 Inversion 1

👉 Inversion 2

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👉 Writing Task 1 Academic Topics

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