When a negative adverb (or adverbial phrase) is placed at the beginning of a sentence, we exchange the normal placement of subject and verb.
Why is that?
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Related and probable duplicate of at least one or another of: http://english.stackexchange.com/q/96620 http://english.stackexchange.com/q/62208 http://english.stackexchange.com/q/1553 http://english.stackexchange.com/q/80644 http://english.stackexchange.com/q/88324 http://english.stackexchange.com/q/95578 – tchrist Mar 18 '13 at 11:12
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Not only do we invert the auxiliary in negative adverbial phrases, so too do we invert them in a host of other circumstances detailed here. – tchrist Mar 18 '13 at 11:46