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Subject and auxiliary inversion

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Put an auxiliary or modal before the subject in direct questions and after a fronted negative or limiting expression. Use do, does, or did when the clause has no other auxiliary. Formal conditional inversion can replace if with had, were, or should.

Only after the interview did we discuss the salary.
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