The Future and Change

Review the grammar refresher and do the writing exercises to improve writing skills.

The Future and Change

Inversion

  • Usage: Used to make a statement sound far more dramatic or powerful by flipping the subject and the auxiliary verb after a negative or limiting phrase.
  • Structure: Negative phrase + auxiliary verb + subject + base verb

Workplace Phrasal Verbs

  • Usage: Used constantly in everyday British business settings to describe actions naturally.
  • Back up – support a theory
  • Get to grips with – deal with a difficult situation
  • Ended up – reach a final result

Examples

Not only did he arrive late, but he also forgot his notes.
Only when the project failed did they change their strategy.
We need to collate all the feedback before we launch the update.

Practise