Civil Service Exam Reviewer · Grammar · hard
Choose the word or phrase that correctly completes the sentence: "Not until the results were released how close the race had been."
- did we realize
- we realized
- we did realize
- had we realize
Answer
A. did we realize
Solution
A negative adverbial at the start ("Not until…") requires inversion: "did we realize."
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