Understand inversion

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essential

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information it's necessary for the

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sentence to make sense

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so let's look at number three now

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inversion

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now inversion is a grammar area that we

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don't really use that much in spoken

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english

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definitely not colloquial day-to-day

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english but it's very useful for your

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writings especially more formal writing

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i made a video on inversion a few months

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ago which i'll share in the description

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and i'll go into the detail of the

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grammar and the structure but for this

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video i'll just give you an example

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sentence so the normal sentence would be

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we can reduce our carbon footprint by

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taking public transport and eating less

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meat

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you'll have noticed that i use a lot of

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examples about the climate change and

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environment because it's very common in

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the exams

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but yet we can reduce our carbon

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footprint

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by taking public transport and eating

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less meat so that's just a normal

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sentence but in the in with the

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inversion structure it would be

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not only can we reduce our carbon

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footprint by

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taking public transport but also by

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eating less meat

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so not only can we so remember with

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inversion

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the verb and the