Do you invert the verb and the subject in the following sentence?
In the sentence 'Hardly had I sat down when the doorbell rang' we invert the verb and the subject. Do you invert them if there is 'it's true' at the beginning? 'It's true that hardly had I sat down when the doorbell rang' or 'It's true that hardly I had sat down when...'?
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In my opinion "it's true" should not be there, this kind of inversion is used to make the sentence sound more dramatic, it you put something else in the beginning you don't get that effect already. So I think no, you don't need inversion in the second example.
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"It's true that I had hardly sat down when the doorbell rang"
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