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Cleft sentence - Emphasis

Note grammaire anglais niveau 2

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Take a look at the following conversation. Susan: Why weren’t you at the music practise yesterday? Emma: I didn’t know there was one. How did you find out about it? Susan: It was you who told me. Don’t you remember? You told me yourself last week. Emma: Oh, yes! I’d forgotten. I’ve got terrible memory. I thought it was Thursday, not Tuesday. Susan: What you need is a personal organiser. Emma: I’d only lose it. Are all the practises going to be on Tuesdays? Susan: Yes, and if you want to be in the orchestra, you have to attend. Emma: Oh, I do want to be in it. I’d love to play in the orchestra.

Emphatic stress We can put emphatic stress on a word to contrast it with something else. Are all the practises going to be on Tuesdays? No, they’re going to be on Thursdays. I want plain paper, not ruled. We can also use emphatic stress to give extra force to a word expressing an extreme quality of feeling. I’ve got a terrible memory. The talk was extremely interesting. It’s a huge building. I’d kill for a cuppa! Note Some words can be repeated for emphasis. They are very, really, and some words expressing quantity and length of time. I’ve been very very busy. Not: I’ve been busy busy. This has happened many many times before. We waited and waited, but no one came. We had a long, long wait. The noise just went on and on.

We can also do this with adjectives expressing extreme feelings. What a terrible, terrible tragedy.

The emphatic form of the verb

We can stress the auxiliary or the ordinary verb be. You can dial direct to Zimbabwe. Carlos said you couldn’t. I haven’t taken your calculator, I tell you. I haven’t touched it. Are you tired? Yes, I am. I’m exhausted. In a simple tense we use the auxiliary do. I do want to be in the orchestra. The garden does look nice. I did post the letter. I’m absolutely certain. Do you want to fly in a balloon? No, I don’t. The idea terrifies me. The emphatic forms emphasise the positive or negative meaning. In the conversation above Emma is emphatic that yes, she wants to be in the orchestra. Note We can also add emphasis by using adverbs such as really, indeed, certainly, and definitely. The garden really does look nice. You can indeed dial direct to Zimbabwe.

But sometimes the form emphasises another part of the meaning rather than yes or no. We might go away for the weekend. We haven’t decided definitely.(it is possible, not certain) I did have a personal organiser, but I lost it. (in the past, not now) Note We can stress an ordinary verb to emphasise its meaning. I’ve borrowed your calculator. I haven’t stolen it. I wrote the letter. I didn’t type it.

Cleft sentences The pattern with it In the conversation Music practise Susan wants to emphasise the identity of the person who told her about the partice. It was you who told me The pattern is it + be + phrase + relative clause. The phrase that we went to emphasise (you) comes after the be. Look at this statement about England’s football team. England won the World Cup in 1966.

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Take a look at the following conversation.

Susan: Why weren’t you at the music practise yesterday?

Emma: I didn’t know there was one. How did you find out about it?

Susan: It was you who told me. Don’t you remember? You told me yourself last week.

Emma: Oh, yes! I’d forgotten. I’ve got terrible memory. I thought it was Thursday, not

Tuesday.

Susan: What you need is a personal organiser.

Emma: I’d only lose it. Are all the practises going to be on Tuesdays?

Susan: Yes, and if you want to be in the orchestra, you have to attend.

Emma: Oh, I do want to be in it. I’d love to play in the orchestra.

Emphatic stress

We can put emphatic stress on a word to contrast it with something else.

Are all the practises going to be on Tuesdays? No, they’re going to be on Thursdays.

I want plain paper, not ruled.

We can also use emphatic stress to give extra force to a word expressing an extreme quality of feeling.

I’ve got a terrible memory.

The talk was extremely interesting.

It’s a huge building.

I’d kill for a cuppa!

Note

Some words can be repeated for emphasis. They are very, really, and some words expressing quantity

and length of time.

I’ve been very very busy. Not: I’ve been busy busy.

This has happened many many times before.

We waited and waited, but no one came. We had a long, long wait.

The noise just went on and on.

We can also do this with adjectives expressing extreme feelings.

What a terrible, terrible tragedy.

The emphatic form of the verb

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