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Inversion Worksheet

The document is an assignment for English 10 students focusing on the concept of inversion in Shakespeare's works, specifically 'The Taming of the Shrew' and 'The Tragedy of Macbeth.' Students are tasked with identifying examples of inversion from specified acts and scenes, then converting those lines into regular syntax. The document includes examples and spaces for students to fill in their findings.

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Inversion Worksheet

The document is an assignment for English 10 students focusing on the concept of inversion in Shakespeare's works, specifically 'The Taming of the Shrew' and 'The Tragedy of Macbeth.' Students are tasked with identifying examples of inversion from specified acts and scenes, then converting those lines into regular syntax. The document includes examples and spaces for students to fill in their findings.

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Siyul Park

English 10
2/24/2026
Name: __________________

Inversion!
De-Shakespeare these lines from The
Taming of the Shrew!

Sorry am I that our good will effects Bianca's grief.

I am sorry that our good will affect Bianca’s grief.

Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.

You shall have leave to court her at your pleasure.

Schoolmasters will I keep within my house.

I will keep schoolmasters within my house.

For how I firmly am resolved you know:


That is, not to bestow my younger daughter
Before I have a husband for the elder.

You know how firmly I am resolved. That is, not to bestow my younger daughter before I
have a husband for the elder.

My business asketh haste,


And every day I cannot come to woo.

My business requires haste, and I cannot come to woo everday.


Find three to five examples of Inversion in Act I, II, or III. Record the Act, Scene, and Line
[Link] Tragedy of Macbeth
Here's an example from Act I: from The Tragedy of Romeo + Juliet

Lady Montague: O where is Romeo, saw you him today?


becomes
Lady Montague:Where's Romeo? Have you seen him today?

Once you have your examples, change the inverted lines to regular syntax (as best you
can) on this sheet!

3 Scene ______,
1. Act ______, 4 39
Line ______

Lennox: May ’t please your highness sit.


becomes
Please sit, your highness.

2. Act ______,
2 Scene ______,
3 Line ______
18-19

Macduff: Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,


That you do lie so late?
becomes
Did you go to sleep so late that you are sleeping so late?

3. Act ______,
2 Scene ______,
1 Line ______
48-49

Macbeth: Now o’er the one half-world


Nature seems dead,
becomes
Now nature seems dead over half the world

4. Act ______,
1 Scene ______,
3 Line ______
38

MACBETH
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
becomes
I have never seen such a foul and fair day

5. Act ______,
2 Scene ______,
2 Line ______
12-13

Lady Macbeth: Had he not resembled


My father as he slept, I had done ’t.
becomes
If he had not resembled my father as he slept, I would have done it.

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