(共40张PPT)
M8U4 Grammar and usage Emphasis
Teaching aims
1. After learning the usage of Emphasis, the students will be able to deal with the exercises about emphasis;
2. After doing some exercises about Emphasis, the students will be able to use them in speaking and writing.
Mary: I have got three tickets for world cup. Here are two tickets for you,
John and Rose.
John: Thank you. I am glad to have got a
ticket for it. It is interesting.
I want to see it again.
Look at the following dialogue:
Rose: It is such an interesting game. I
really want to see it . I
am so glad to have got a ticket
for it. Thank you, Mary.
Compare what John said with what Rose said, and tell why Rose use such, really, so.
The adjective such is used to emphasize an interesting game, While the adverbs really and so are respectively used to emphasize the verb want and the adjective glad.
Rose used them to express her strong feeling about the game — how anxious she wanted to see the game again.
These sentence structure are called
emphasis.
Look at the following sentences. Pay
attention to the differences:
This is the book that you asked me to buy.
This is the just book that you asked me to buy.
I know his phone number.
I do know his phone number.
function ?
1. 用形容词very,only,single,such等修饰名词或形容词来加强语气。
That’s the very textbook we used last term.
You are the only person here that can speak Chinese.
Not a single person has been in the shop this morning.
How dare you buy such expensive jewels?
强调类型
2. 用ever, never, very, just等副词进行强调
Why ever did you do so?
He never said a word the whole day.
You’ve got to be very, very careful.
This is just what I wanted.
3. 用in the world,on earth,at all等介词短语可以表达更强的语气(常用于疑问句)。
Where in the world could he be?
What on earth is going on?
Do you know at all?
4. 用倒装句(也就是将要强调的句子或被强调的部分置于句首)来加强语气。
On the table were some flowers.
Many a time have I climbed that hill.
Only in this way can we solve this problem.
It is I who am wrong.
It is in a small factory that my brother is going to work.
强调句型
What kind of sentences are they?
5.用强调句型帮助强调
1. 构成 (structure)
It is/was +强调部分+that (who/whom) +其他成分
强调除谓语以外的句子成分
强调人
只能是
单数
They will have a meeting in the hall tomorrow.
强调主语
It is they that/who will have a meeting in the hall tomorrow.
强调宾语
It is a meeting that they will have in the hall tomorrow.
强调地点状语
It is in the hall that they will have a meeting tomorrow.
强调时间状语
It is tomorrow that they will have a meeting in the hall.
2. 强调句型的注意点
It is your father who is wrong this time.
It is his parents who have come to China.
① 主谓一致:被强调部分作主语时,其形式与谓语动词在人称和数上保持一致。
主语
谓语
一致
Exercise:
It is Mary who often ____ (help/helps) me
with my English.
2) It is I that ____ (be) against you.
3) It is the boy students of Class Two who ____
playing football on the playground.
helps
am
are
② 人称照应:强调主语用主格,强调宾语用宾格。
It is I who am wrong.
It was her whom I saw in the street just now.
主语
主格
宾语
宾格
这次得冠军的是她。
It was ____ that won the championship this time.
你明天要去采访的是他。
she
It is ____who you will interview tomorrow.
him
It must be Peter who has let this secret out.
It may be next week that she leaves for Tokyo.
It might be last night that the thief broke in their house.
③ be前面可加情态动词
④问句形式:
一般问句:Is/Was it + 被强调部分
+ that + …
Is it the dictionary that you are looking for?
Was it yesterday that he was fired?
What is it that you want me to do ?
Who was it that told you the news?
When was it that you called me?
How was it that you succeed?
特殊问句:疑问词+is/was +it +that
+ …
他想申请的是这家公司吗?
________________ that he wants to apply for?
你们是在哪里买到这本小说的?
Is it this company
Where was it that you bought
the novel?
I didn’t realize what trouble he was in until at that time.
It was not until at that time that I realized what trouble he was in.
⑤ 当强调not … until结构时,必须将
not until连用,后面接肯定式。
The teacher didn’t stop his lesson until the bell rang. (改成强调句)
It was not until the bell rang that the teacher stopped his lesson.
直到他父亲来了男孩才开始做作业。
It was not until his father came that the boy began to do his homework.
It was not until _____ that _____ to prepare his lessons.
A. did his father come in ; the boy began
B.his father came in; the boy began
C. did his father come in ; did the boy begin
D.his father came in ; did the boy begin
B
把“It is/was—that”去掉,如果剩余部分句子结构仍然完整,那么这个句子就是强调句;如果句子不完整,则不是强调句。如:
It is true that he once went to America.
It is known to all that paper was made first in
China
It was at 8 o’clock that he came back.
主语从句
强调句型
3. 强调句型的判断
It was at the theatre ____ Lincoln was murdered.
It was the theatre _____ Lincoln was murdered.
A. which B. that C. where D. the one
B
C
6.用助动词帮助强调
Do be careful!
He did tell me the news.
She does love talking.
强调谓语(predicate)
有人称和数的变化
Do teach him a lesson!
We did want to have a wonderful festival.
I do think the rabbit is a beautiful, gentle animal.
1) 我们真的想拥有一个精彩的节日。
2) 我的确认为兔子是一种美丽温和的动
物。
Consolidation exercises
— Where was it ________ the road
accident happened yesterday?
— In front of the market.
A. when B. that C. which D. how
2. Was ________ that I saw last night at the concert?
A. it you B. not you
C. you D. that yourself
3. I believe that when the power of love overcomes the love of power, ______ will there be peace in this world.
A. until then B. only which
C. so D. only then
4. — Why was ________ she put off
going abroad for further education?
— Because of her baby.
A. that B. it C. what D. it that
5. It was because he missed the train to London yesterday ________ you couldn’t have met him there.
A. which B. where C. that D. when
6. Was it ______ she said or something that she did _________ you were angry at so much?
A. what; that B. that; which
C. that; what D. what; which
7. — ______ makes her different from
the other students?
— Honesty, I think.
A. What is that B. What is it that
C. How is it that D. How is that
8. It ____ the Chinese women that____ a great role in the socialist construction.
A. is; plays B. are; play
C. is; play D. are; plays
9. — He has nearly drowned once.
—When was ______?
— ______ was in 1998 when he was in middle school.
A. that; It B. this; This C. this; It D. that, This
10. — It was on Oct1st,1949 that People’s Rupublic of China was founded.
— It was at the gate ______ he told me the news.
A. that B. what C. which D. when
11.An awful accident__, however, occur the other day.
A.does B. did C. has to D. had to
12.It was _______ back home after the experiment.
not until midnight did he go
B. not until midnight that he went
C. until midnight that he didn’t go
D. until midnight when he didn’t go
13.I can’t figure out ______ you didn’t call Ted back that day.
why it was that B. it was why that
C. why was it that D.that it was why
14.It was George Orwell _____ real name is Eric Arthur Blair _____wrote many Political novels and essays.
who; which B. whose ; which
C. who ;that D. whose; that
1. Finish off A&B on page 57.
2. Finish off C1& C2 on page 126 in your Workbook.
3. Do the following multiple choices.
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