介绍:
● Cleft sentence
▲ Mike took Sally to the party on Saturday
1.It was Mike who took Sally to the party on Saturday.
2.It was Sally that Mike took to the party on Saturday.
3.It was on Saturday that Mike took Sally to the party.
4.It was to the party that Mike took Sally on Saturday.
▲ 基本形式：it + be + X + 从句
1.It&`&s Joey that we&`&re looking for.
2.It was actually my dad who taught me to cook.
3.It was from John that she heard the news.
4.It was meeting Jim that really started me off on this new line of work.
5.It was not until I went abroad that I realized the importance of studying English.
▲ 各种形式的cleft structure
1.What 类: What he wanted to buy was a BMW.
2.All 类: All he wanted to buy was a BMW.
3.推论类： It is not that he loves her. It&`&s just that he has a way with her that is different.
4.If-because类: If he wants to be an actor it&`&s because he wants to be famous.
● End-weight
长的、复杂的结构通常放在句尾 – 凸显信息的重要性 & 保持句子平衡
1.Children are sometimes discouraged by the length of time it takes to learn a musical instrument.
2.The length of time it takes to learn a music instrument sometimes discourages children.
1.It worried me that she hadn’t been in touch for so long.
2.That she hadn’t been in touch for so long worried me.
1.He made it clear that he was not in the least interested.
2.He made that he was not in the least interested clear.
● Spacing out – spoken structure
•It’s terrible, you know, the unemployment down there.
•It’s unbearable, you know, the environmental problems in my hometown.
•That guy who rang up, he’s an architect.
•The girl I met in our tutorial last week, I really don’t want to invite her to our party.
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