lexical verbs. The exceptional type of clause is that of declarative clause with a lexical verb in a present simple or past simple form. Questions Like Yes/No questions, interrogative Wh- questions are regularly formed with inversion of subject and auxiliary. Present Simple and Past Simple questions are formed with the auxiliary do, a process known as do-support. {|cellspacing="8" ||a. Which game is Sam watching? |- ||b. Where does she live? |} (see subject-auxiliary inversion in questions) With topic adverbs and adverbial phrases In certain patterns similar to Old and Middle English, inversion is possible. However, this is a matter of stylistic choice, unlike the constraint on interrogative clauses. negative or restrictive adverbial first {|cellspacing="8" ||c. At no point will he drink Schnapps. |- ||d. No sooner had she arrived than she started to make demands. |} (see negative inversion) comparative adverb or adjective first {|cellspacing="8" ||e. So keenly did the children miss their parents, they cried themselves to sleep. |- ||f. Such was their sadness, they could never enjoy going out. |} After the preceding classes of adverbial, only auxiliary verbs, not lexical verbs, participate in inversion locative or temporal adverb first {|cellspacing="8" ||g. Here comes the bus. |- ||h. Now is the hour when we must say goodbye. |} prepositional phrase first {|cellspacing="8" ||i. Behind the goal sat many photographers. |- ||j. Down the road came the person we were waiting for. |} (see locative inversion, directive inversion) After the two latter types of adverbial, only one-word lexical verb forms (Present Simple or Past Simple), not auxiliary verbs, participate in inversion, and only with noun-phrase subjects, not pronominal subjects. Direct quotations When the object of a verb is a verbatim quotation, it may precede the verb, with a result similar to Old English V2. Such clauses are found in storytelling and in news reports. {|cellspacing="8" ||k. "Wolf! Wolf!" cried the boy. |- ||l. "The unrest is spreading throughout the country," writes our Jakarta correspondent. |} (see quotative inversion) Declarative clauses without inversion Corresponding to the above examples, the following clauses show the normal Modern English subject-verb order. Declarative equivalents {|cellspacing="8" ||a′. Sam is watching the Cup games. |- ||b′. She lives in the country. |} Equivalents without topic fronting {|cellspacing="8" |- ||c′. He will at no point drink Schnapps. |- ||d′. She had no sooner arrived than she started to make demands. |- ||e′. The children missed their parents