But I’ve never heard anything like that!
Do people actually use it?
This is what my B2+ / C1 / C2 students often tell me whenever I try to teach them how to add emphasis using negative inversion. This shouldn’t come as a surprise since inverted and added auxiliaries are not always easily noticeable (i.e. salient in the input).
So, the aim of this mini-lesson is to expose students to a number of “real life” examples of negative inversion in order to (1) show them that negative inversion does exist and is used far more frequently than some people might think, and (2) train them to listen out for examples of negative inversion in the English that surrounds them.
You can use this mini-lesson to review or introduce negative inversion.