Wednesday, January 30, 2019

grammar - Question-like structure (word order) in non-question sentences


Occasionally I see constructs like this in English sentences:





  1. Not only is this true in this case, but ...



What puzzles me is the "is this" part of it. The sentence is not a question, yet it seems to have a question-like order. Isn't this correct/preferred:




  1. Not only this is true in this case, but ...




Are there other cases where non-question sentences contain question-like parts (so to speak)?




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