C1 · Lesson 9Grammar

Stylistic inversion

Put the verb before its subject in careful written French: after à peine, ainsi, du moins, encore and toujours est-il que, after direct speech (dit-il, répondit le témoin) and in relative clauses, and know when inversion is required, optional or wrong.

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