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Emphasis in writing: Fronting
  • Fronting: the Compliment or Direct Object is put before the Subject of the sentence:


Happy I was not until I won the lottery.

(I was not happy until I won the lottery)


I started eating chocolate 30 years ago. Cake I did not start to eat until last week.

Slide 2 - Diapositive

Emphasis: Fronting
  • Subordinate clause before the main clause:

Because he had not studied, he failed the exam.

  • Preposition and adverb phrases before the Subject:

Despite the high costs, many people go on holidays.

  • Verb before the subject afetr a linking word of sequence:

First came the warm wind and then, finally, came the Spring.

Slide 3 - Diapositive

Slide 4 - Vidéo

Emphasis : Cleft Sentences
  • What + Subject + auxiliary verb + is/was + infinitive :

They eat chocolate cake for breakfast every morning

What they do is (to) eat chocolate cake for breakfast every morning .

  • What + Subject + main verb + is/was + to infinitive

I want to find a good house to live in

What I want is to find a good house to live in.


Slide 5 - Diapositive

Emphasis: Cleft Sentences
  • It + is/was + (that):

  I like good marks but I hate studying for my tests  

 I like good marks, but it is studying for my tests that I hate.

  • All/The last thing + subject + verb + is/was:

 My students (don't) need a good mark to make my day

All (/The last thing) my students need is a good mark to make my day.

Slide 6 - Diapositive

Emphasis: Adverbs & Reflexive pronouns
  • Adverbs:

George, finally, finished his task

Frederic, personally, does not need a wife to make him happy.

  • Reflexive pronouns:

The Queen herself called me last night

Slide 7 - Diapositive

So what do you know about emphasis and cleft sentences?

Slide 8 - Carte mentale

The following sentence is put in an emphatic construction: choose the correct one:

"This has been my home for twenty years."
A
My home this is for twenty years
B
This my home is for twenty years
C
My home this has been for twenty years
D
This my home has been for twenty years

Slide 9 - Quiz

The following sentence is put in an emphatic construction: choose the correct one:

"The CEO of the company called me personally."
A
I was called by the CEO of the company personally.
B
It was the CEO of the company who called me personally.
C
Personally the CEO of the company has called me.
D
It was the CEO of the company, personally, who did call me

Slide 10 - Quiz

The following sentence is put in an emphatic construction: choose the correct one:

"The students never study for their tests."

A
What the students never do is study for their tests
B
What the students never do has been studying for their tests
C
It is studying for their tests that the students never do.
D
For their tests the students are never studying.

Slide 11 - Quiz

The following sentence is put in an emphatic construction: choose the correct one:

"Children have to eat vitamins during winter."
A
What the children needed to have done is eating vitamins during winter
B
It is eating vitamins that the children have to do during winter
C
During winter children have to eat vitamins
D
What the children have to do is eat vitamins during winter

Slide 12 - Quiz