[Grammar] If there should be major dramatic change in infections ...

[Saraj Zhou]

[FONT=&quot]“If there should be major dramatic change in infections, we may need to revisit this matter among ourselves, and we may need to consider the option of having no spectators in the venues,” the governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike , said." [From The Guardian]

Can I change it into a partial inversion sentence as below?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“Should there be major dramatic change in infections, we may need ……,”[/FONT]

 

[5jj]

Welcome to the forum, Saraj Zhou. :hi:

You can indeed change the sentence in that way.

 

[emsr2d2]

In my opinion, both the governor's words and any rewrite need the indefinite article before "major dramatic change". He is, of course, not a native English speaker so such an error is entirely forgivable.

 

[tzfujimino]

Yuriko Koike is female. She's the governor of Tokyo.

 

[Tdol]

She'd be better off using just major or dramatic for me- using both is overkill.

 

[Saraj Zhou]

Ya, I think it lack of a article too.

 

[emsr2d2]

[STRIKE]Ya[/STRIKE] Yes, I think it lacks [STRIKE]of[/STRIKE] an article too.

Note my corrections above.