Grammar
How would you say the following in normal word order?
Never have I heard such nonsense in my life!
I have never heard such nonsense in my life!
Which verb means to move from one country to another?
Emigrate
Elected in 2008, who was the first African American president in American history?
Barack Obama
Who lives at 10 Downing Street?
The Prime Minister
Which company created the iPhone?
Apple
'Had I studied harder, I would have passed the test' is an example of an inverted form of what?
A conditional (third conditional)
Which word means to remove someone from a place of danger to a safer place?
Evacuate
What is the surname of Thomas who invented the lightbulb?
Edison
Which pre-historic monument in Wiltshire is believed to be around 2500 years old?
Stonehenge
In Greek mythology, wo was king of the gods?
Zeus
What is emphatic inversion?
where the normal subject-verb order in a sentence is reversed to create emphasis, often used with negative or limiting adverbs.
...as old as the
hills
What is Johannes Gutenberg credited with inventing?
Printing Press
Which traditional British meal is typically eaten on a Sunday and includes meat, vegetables and Yorkshire pudding?
Sunday roast
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Au
Invert the following for emphatic effect:
I rarely go to Spain for my holidays
Rarely do I go to Spain for my holidays
I've got a memory like a . . .
seive
How many wives did Henry VIII have?
6
In which British city would you find Roman Baths, originally built around natural hot springs?
Bath
Who wrote the novel 1984?
George Orwell
What do we do to sentence that being with only when we invert them for emphasis?
Invert subject/verb in the second clause
She built a _____ ______ from scratch, so she's totally _____________.
Business, empire, self-made
In which year did the Wall Street Crash occur?
1929
In which district of London is an annual major tennis tournament held?
Wimbledon
What is the name for a word that is the same spelt backwards as forwards (for example, level)?
A palindrome