Advanced Inversion in Conditionals

Formal, literary condition forms.

Examples

• Should you need help, call me.

Key rules

• Omit if and invert the auxiliary: Had I known, Were he here, Should you need
• Negative: Had I not known
• No contractions with inversion: not Hadn't I known
• Used in formal writing

Common mistakes

• If had I known → Had I known
• Were he be here → Were he here