In a speech, I once asked the audience to turn this sentence into an inverted sentence: most people can't resist the temptation. Maybe those who know the answer clearly don't show their emotions because they are shy or low-key. In short, after a minute, no one made a sound.

Here's a hint: consider starting with "no" But it doesn't seem to help much, because no teacher has taught the inversion of "no" from middle school to college. So, I'll give you another clue: what is the word "no"? Negative words. Yes! Then you must have heard of negative inversion!

Since "no" itself will not lead to inversion, then we can change it to "almost" to produce negative inversion.

Most people find it hard to resist the temptation.

Most people find it hard to resist the temptation.

There are quite a few negative words that can guide inversion sentences: rarely, rarely, almost never, from the heart and never ... There is a famous saying by epiktetos, a Greek Stoic scholar, which contains the negative words "from the heart" and "not at all" to form inversion sentences:

A ship should not rely on a small anchor, and life should not rely on a hope.

A ship can't rely on only one anchor, and life can't rely on only one hope.

Imitating his sentences, I also give some suggestions to learners:

English writing should not rely on natural order, and negative forms should not rely on "no".

English writing can't rely solely on natural word order (subject precedes predicate, as opposed to inversion), nor can it rely solely on the word "no".

Learning to use negative words other than "no" can increase the richness of vocabulary and make people more sensitive to negative word inversion. Of course, this does not mean that we need to turn the "not" in writing into various negative words that lead to inverted sentences, and then produce the forest of inverted sentences from the seeds of this inverted sentence; Instead, it can be used appropriately when it is necessary to strengthen the tone.

Then, besides "no", how can you like negative words? I shared a short story with you. When I was in Europe, I shared a house with a timid foreign girl. One of my roommate's hobbies is knocking on my door and then saying in a frightened tone, "There must be someone in the kitchen. Could you please check it? " There seems to be someone in the kitchen. Can you go and have a look? Once, she woke me up from a deep sleep at midnight 1. When I came back from the kitchen, she nervously asked, "Did you see anyone?" My usual answer is "I didn't". However, that night, while I was depressed about my dream of being woken up by her while sitting by the hot pot and moving chopsticks, I decided to find a way to make such a thing never happen again. So, I changed my answer, or, more precisely, I changed my habit of using negative words: "I saw …" (I saw … I said again, "Nobody." I used a negative word different from "no", at least since then, I have never been harassed by her again.