Einführung

Die Inversion beinhaltet die Änderung der Position des Subjekts und des Hilfs- oder Modalverbs.

Wir verwenden die Inversion:

• Wenn wir einen Satz mit einem negativen adverbialen Ausdruck, eine adverbialen Ausdruck des Ortes oder nur mit einem Adverb beginnen
• Mit: „only after", „only if", „only when" etc., wenn sie zu Beginn eines Satzes für eine rhetorische Wirkung platziert werden
• In Bedingungssätzen ohne „if"
• Um zu betonen, welches dann in der Regel formeller klingt.

Beispiele

• "Under no circumstances should you open the box."
  (You should not open the box.)
   
• "On the table were three old books."
  (Three old books were on the table.)
   
• "Hardly had I entered the room when the orchestra began to play."
  (I had hardly entered the room when the orchestra began to play.)
   
• "Only when it started raining did he give me the umbrella."*
  (He gave me the umbrella only when it started raining.)
   

* Beachten Sie, dass die Inversion im Hauptsatz nach Ausdrücken wie „only after“, „only it“ und „only when“ auftritt.

Weitere Beispiele

• "Had I gone to university, I might have been a doctor."
  (If I had gone to university, I might have been a doctor.)
   
• "Had I not gone to university, I wouldn’t have been a doctor."
  (If I hadn’t gone to university, I wouldn’t have been a doctor.)
   
• "Had you gone to university, would you have been a doctor?"
  (If you had gone to university, would you have been a doctor?)

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Einige häufige negative Adverbien

• Never (before), Rarely, Seldom…
• Under no circumstances…
• Hardly, Scarcely …when…
• No sooner…than…
• Little…
• In no way…
• Not only…but…
• On no account…
• At no time…

Beispiele

• As soon as I arrived, the music started.
  "No sooner did I arrive than the music started."
   
• You mustn’t have the music too loud.
  "On no account must you have the music too loud." *
   
• He’d never seen anything like it before.
  "Never before had he seen anything like it." *
   
• I’d never seen the film.
  "At no time had I (ever) seen the film." *

* Beachten Sie, dass sich ein negatives Verb in ein positives Verb verwandelt, wenn es auf einen negativen adverbialen Ausdruck folgt.

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Übungen

Wandeln Sie die folgenden Sätze um:

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1)

You mustn't let the dog off its lead.
Under no circumstances    the dog off its lead.

 

2)

She had never been there.
At no time    there.

 

3)

I am hardly ever late for work.
Rarely    late for work.

 

4)

This is not acceptable.
In no way    acceptable.

 

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Weitere Übungen

Wählen Sie die richtige Option aus a, b, c oder d:
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1)

Seldom ____ on holiday as children.
 

went we

we went

did we go

we did go

 

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2)

Scarcely ____ the house when it started to rain.
 

had they left

they had left

they hadn't left

they left

 

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3)

____ more hard-working, she would have a job.
 

If were she

She was

She were

Were she

 

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4)

Out in the garden ____.
 

birds aren't

are birds

birds are

are there birds

 

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5)

On no account ____ the phone.
 

should you answer

you shouldn't answer

you should answer

answer you

 

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6)

Not only ____ but he was rude as well.
 

he wasn't late

late was he

he was late

was he late

 

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