Inversion in spoken English

We are going to work on inversion by looking at some examples in which inversion is used by native speakers.

Let´s start with Gwyneth Paltrow´s speech  when she was awarded the Oscar for "Shakespeare in Love"

A couple of useful words you'll need to understand her speech:

SOULFUL: passionate and deeply expressive
OXYMORON: contradiction

Where does she use an iversion?

Here goes a selection of links to pretty comprehensive explanations of common INVERSION PATTERNS:

INVERSION I
INVERSION II 

You may as well find extended practice in your grammar bible MyGrammarLab in Unit 76.

UNIT 2 GRAMMAR: VERB PATTERNS

Verb patterns are the combination of a verb plus another verb, which can adopt the form of an infinitive, or an -ing form. In addition, there can be an object in the middle. Some verbs can combine with both infinitive and -ing (sometimes there's a change in meaning and some other times it makes no difference). 

To practise this important grammar content, I propose two activities: