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Subject-auxiliary inversion with SO and NEITHER / NOR to express agreement

So + auxiliary + subject is added to a positive statement to express agreement, and neither/nor + auxiliary + subject is added to a negative statement for the same purpose:

Subject-verb inversion after place adverbials

When an adverb or an adverbial expression of place comes in the initial position (at the beginning of the sentence), the subject and verb are inverted:

Subject-verb inversion in direct speech

In direct speech, if the quotation precedes the reporting verb, the subject and the reporting verb can be inverted:

"I'm so sorry," Maria said / said Maria.

If the subject is long, usually there is inversion:

What is inversion?

Inversion is the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. There are two types of inversion:

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