Inversion: Fish are the most .....

[holmes]

Hi, Erin.
Here is a question that I’ve taken from my tests. But with the kind of questions like this I always feel so confused.

Fish are the most ancient form of vertebrate life, and__________ all other vertebrates.
a) from them evolved
b) evolved them
c) to evolve
d) they are evolved

By the way, I want to ask you where I can find your explanations for questions which you have just sent to me. I did all of them. But some are really hard .
Thanks.

[Erin]

Hello there!

Funny!! I just taught this question last night in class!!

Here's my explanation (from the notes I use in class):

This is an inversion question. We can use inversion because we have an adverbial phrase, in this case, a prepositional phrase, before the subject and verb.

Here’s the simplified sentence in the 'easy' order:

fish are the most ancient form of life and all other vertebrates evolved from them.

This one is tricky because the inversion occurs in the second main sentence, not in the first.

As for the other questions, I haven't written explanations for them yet.


Hope that helps!

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Erin

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[holmes]

Thank you a lot , Erin. I got it.