№84 English Grammar - Inversion with negative adverbials, little did she know, never has he tried

Summary

In this video, the speaker discusses inversion with negative adverbials in the English language. Negative adverbials are words or phrases that show how an action takes place or how one thinks about something. When negative adverbials are placed at the beginning of a sentence, inversion is used. This construction is more formal and literary, and is commonly used in official letters, documents, and articles. Some examples of negative adverbials include rarely, seldom, not only, not until, under no circumstances, and little. The speaker also mentions that even though "little" doesn't sound very negative, it is still used in this construction to emphasize that someone didn't know something at all.

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