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Originally Posted by JiriLindovsky  Good evening,
I have found this sentence:
...Yet neither at school nor at university is emphasis placed on principles or practice of speaking or negotiating - we all appear to have to learn by doing. ...
1)the word order?
I would say: Yet neither at school nor at university,emphasis is placed on...
Thank you in advance for explanation,
J.L. |
With the negation placed prior to the subject "emphasis", we have S-V inversion.
Emphasis is not placed on principles or practice of speaking or negotiating either at school or at university.
*Yet neither at school nor at university [is] emphasis
is placed on principles or practice of speaking or negotiating ... [* denotes ungrammatical]
As to why, I can't rightly say, 'cause I don' rightly know.