English Grammar - Sentence Completion

English Grammar
English Grammar - Sentence Completion

Select the correct option: Only after a decade of fieldwork ___ fully grasp the dialect's nuances.


Options:

  1. she had
  2. did she
  3. had she
  4. she did

Right Answer: did she

This sentence begins with the restrictive adverbial phrase 'Only after a decade of fieldwork'. When such a negative or restrictive expression is fronted, English requires subject-auxiliary inversion in the main clause. The blank is followed by the bare infinitive 'grasp', so the auxiliary must be 'did', giving 'did she fully grasp'. Option one, 'she had', keeps normal word order and ignores the inversion rule. Option three, 'had she', is inverted but would need the past participle 'grasped' rather than 'grasp'. Option four, 'she did', is again uninverted. Hence option two is correct.

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