SKILL 19: INVERT THE SUBJECT AND VERB WITH COMPARISONS

SKILL 19: INVERT THE SUBJECT AND VERB WITH COMPARISONS

An inverted subject and verb may also occur after a comparison. The inversion of a subject and verb after a comparison is optional, rather than required, and it is a rather formal structure. There have been a number of inverted comparisons on recent TOEFL tests, so would you be familiar with this structure.

 

EXERCISE 19: Each of the following sentences contains a comparison. Circle the expressions of place. Look at the clauses that immediately follow the place expressions and underline the subjects once and the verbs twice. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).

 

3.             (_______) The film that we saw last night at the festival was far better than any of the other films.

4.         (_______) The vegetables at the market this morning were far fresher than were those at the market yesterday.

5.             (_______) I am afraid that is the condition of these tires as bad as the condition of the others.

6.          (_______) We firmly believed that our team could achieve a much faster time than any of the others.

7.             (_______) This apple pie is not as good as the last one that you made.

8.             (_______) On the fishing trip, Bobby caught twice as many fish as anyone else did.

9.             (_______) The final speaker gave us more details than had any of the previous speakers.

10    (_______) Do you know why does he need to sleep so many hours than do the others?

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