| Order | negative adverbial + auxiliary + subject + verb; do, does or did if there is none | Never have I seen such a crowd. / Rarely does she complain. |
| Negative adverbials | never, rarely, little, nowhere, not once, on no account | Little did he know what was coming. |
| Hardly and no sooner | hardly and scarcely take when, no sooner takes than; past perfect first | No sooner had he arrived than it began to rain. |
| Not only, not until, only | the main clause inverts; the other clause keeps its order | Not until he left did I understand. |
| So and such | so + adjective or adverb, or such + be, then that | So tired was she that she fell asleep. |
| Nor and neither | the auxiliary of the first clause, then the subject | She didn't call, nor did she write. |
| C2Place and direction | the verb stands before a noun subject; a pronoun subject stays first | Here comes the bus. / Here he comes. |
| C2Complements and objects | a fronted complement puts be before the subject; an object does not | Gone are the days of long letters. / This much I know. |
| C2Than, as and quotations | a noun subject can follow the verb or auxiliary | Tom is tall, as is his brother. / “Come in,” said Tom. |
| C2Conditionals | had, were and should replace if in formal conditions | Should you need help, please ask. |
| Trap | the subject follows the auxiliary, not the adverbial | Not only did she win, but she also set a record. |
| Trap | do, does and did take the base verb | Rarely does he come late. |