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I am reading about C++ computer programming (Stroustrup's book - for the keens) and I have just met with this sentence.
Only when that is done do we have a class from which we can create objects.
It is quite straightforward I think and I understand it (I hope so). My problem is that I don't remember a sentence structure like this.
Could you please make things clear for me and make some other examples and / or alternatives to this using?
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I am reading about C++ computer programming (Stroustrup's book - for the keens) and I have just met with this sentence.
Only when that is done do we have a class from which we can create objects.
It is quite straightforward I think and I understand it (I hope so). My problem is that I don't remember a sentence structure like this.
Could you please make things clear for me and make some other examples and / or alternatives to this using?
structure
edited 2 days ago
Andrew
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I am reading about C++ computer programming (Stroustrup's book - for the keens) and I have just met with this sentence.
Only when that is done do we have a class from which we can create objects.
It is quite straightforward I think and I understand it (I hope so). My problem is that I don't remember a sentence structure like this.
Could you please make things clear for me and make some other examples and / or alternatives to this using?
structure
edited 2 days ago
Andrew
71.4k679157
asked Apr 6 at 1:33
gladiatorgladiator
132
I am reading about C++ computer programming (Stroustrup's book - for the keens) and I have just met with this sentence.
Only when that is done do we have a class from which we can create objects.
It is quite straightforward I think and I understand it (I hope so). My problem is that I don't remember a sentence structure like this.
Could you please make things clear for me and make some other examples and / or alternatives to this using?
structure
structure
edited 2 days ago
Andrew
71.4k679157
asked Apr 6 at 1:33
gladiatorgladiator
132
edited 2 days ago
Andrew
71.4k679157
asked Apr 6 at 1:33
gladiatorgladiator
132
edited 2 days ago
Andrew
71.4k679157
edited 2 days ago
Andrew
71.4k679157
edited 2 days ago
Andrew
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asked Apr 6 at 1:33
gladiatorgladiator
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asked Apr 6 at 1:33
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The sentence Only when that is done do we have a class from which we can create objects features one of the cases in which the subject and the verb are inverted in English.
Swan in Practical English Usage has a section with the title (Inversion) after negative and restrictive expressions (p280). He writes:
If a negative adverb or adverbial expression is put at the beginning
of a clause for emphasis, it is usually followed by auxiliary verb +
subject. These structures are mostly rather formal.
- Under no circumstances can we cash cheques.
- At no time was the President aware of what was happening.
...
Inversion is also used after restrictive words like hardly (in BrE), seldom, rarely, little and never, and after only + time expression. This is formal or literary.
...
- Only then did I understand what she meant.
- Only after her death was I able to appreciate her.
- Not only did we lose our money, but we were nearly killed.
As non-inversion alternatives to your sentence you could write :
- It is not until that is done that we have a class from which we can create objects.
- We have a class from which we can create objects only after that is done.
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The sentence Only when that is done do we have a class from which we can create objects features one of the cases in which the subject and the verb are inverted in English.
Swan in Practical English Usage has a section with the title (Inversion) after negative and restrictive expressions (p280). He writes:
If a negative adverb or adverbial expression is put at the beginning
of a clause for emphasis, it is usually followed by auxiliary verb +
subject. These structures are mostly rather formal.
- Under no circumstances can we cash cheques.
- At no time was the President aware of what was happening.
...
Inversion is also used after restrictive words like hardly (in BrE), seldom, rarely, little and never, and after only + time expression. This is formal or literary.
...
- Only then did I understand what she meant.
- Only after her death was I able to appreciate her.
- Not only did we lose our money, but we were nearly killed.
As non-inversion alternatives to your sentence you could write :
- It is not until that is done that we have a class from which we can create objects.
- We have a class from which we can create objects only after that is done.
answered 2 days ago
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The sentence Only when that is done do we have a class from which we can create objects features one of the cases in which the subject and the verb are inverted in English.
Swan in Practical English Usage has a section with the title (Inversion) after negative and restrictive expressions (p280). He writes:
If a negative adverb or adverbial expression is put at the beginning
of a clause for emphasis, it is usually followed by auxiliary verb +
subject. These structures are mostly rather formal.
- Under no circumstances can we cash cheques.
- At no time was the President aware of what was happening.
...
Inversion is also used after restrictive words like hardly (in BrE), seldom, rarely, little and never, and after only + time expression. This is formal or literary.
...
- Only then did I understand what she meant.
- Only after her death was I able to appreciate her.
- Not only did we lose our money, but we were nearly killed.
As non-inversion alternatives to your sentence you could write :
- It is not until that is done that we have a class from which we can create objects.
- We have a class from which we can create objects only after that is done.
answered 2 days ago
ShoeShoe
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The sentence Only when that is done do we have a class from which we can create objects features one of the cases in which the subject and the verb are inverted in English.
Swan in Practical English Usage has a section with the title (Inversion) after negative and restrictive expressions (p280). He writes:
If a negative adverb or adverbial expression is put at the beginning
of a clause for emphasis, it is usually followed by auxiliary verb +
subject. These structures are mostly rather formal.
- Under no circumstances can we cash cheques.
- At no time was the President aware of what was happening.
...
Inversion is also used after restrictive words like hardly (in BrE), seldom, rarely, little and never, and after only + time expression. This is formal or literary.
...
- Only then did I understand what she meant.
- Only after her death was I able to appreciate her.
- Not only did we lose our money, but we were nearly killed.
As non-inversion alternatives to your sentence you could write :
- It is not until that is done that we have a class from which we can create objects.
- We have a class from which we can create objects only after that is done.
answered 2 days ago
ShoeShoe
2,695712
The sentence Only when that is done do we have a class from which we can create objects features one of the cases in which the subject and the verb are inverted in English.
Swan in Practical English Usage has a section with the title (Inversion) after negative and restrictive expressions (p280). He writes:
If a negative adverb or adverbial expression is put at the beginning
of a clause for emphasis, it is usually followed by auxiliary verb +
subject. These structures are mostly rather formal.
- Under no circumstances can we cash cheques.
- At no time was the President aware of what was happening.
...
Inversion is also used after restrictive words like hardly (in BrE), seldom, rarely, little and never, and after only + time expression. This is formal or literary.
...
- Only then did I understand what she meant.
- Only after her death was I able to appreciate her.
- Not only did we lose our money, but we were nearly killed.
As non-inversion alternatives to your sentence you could write :
- It is not until that is done that we have a class from which we can create objects.
- We have a class from which we can create objects only after that is done.
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