When only after, only if, only in this way etc. Are placed at the beginning of the sentence for rhetorical effect, the subject and auxiliary are inverted: Only after lunch can you play.

We are getting that only printed. What is the proper way to put it? Which is grammatically correct? I can only do so much in this time. Or i can do only so much in this time. The oxford english dictionary defines but only (which can also occur as only but) as meaning ‘ (a) only, merely; (b) except only’, and comments that its use is now poetical.

Or i can do only so much in this time. The oxford english dictionary defines but only (which can also occur as only but) as meaning ‘ (a) only, merely; (b) except only’, and comments that its use is now poetical.