BBC English Masterclass: Inversion 2: Reduced conditionals and more

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In this Masterclass, Dan's going to show you more about inversion including reduced conditionals and adverbs of place or movement. For more, visit our website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/towards-advanced/unit-26/session-1 TRANSCRIPT Under no circumstances should you stop watching this video! Only here will you get the full inversion explanation 2. Are you ready? Let’s invert! Inversion happens in English for emphasis, dramatic purpose or formality. In order to invert, the subject verb object order of a normal sentence is changed in some way. Let’s find out how. Go! So, by now you should be familiar with the conditional forms of English. These sentences usually start with if and relate to the result or possible result of a real or imagined action. So, for example: If you go to town, will you get me a cola? If I were an animal, I would be a dog. If I had stayed longer, I would have learned a new language. However, in second and third conditionals we can remove the if and invert the subject and auxiliary verb. So: Were I an animal, I would be a dog. Had I stayed longer, I would have learned a new language. Got it? To invert a first conditional in this way, we need to use the word ‘should’. Should makes a first conditional more polite and more tentative. So: If you should go into town, will you get me a cola? Now to invert we just remove the ‘if’ and invert the subject and auxiliary verb as normal. So: Should you go in to town, will you get me a

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