Ch 29 cleft sentence.pptVIP

Chapter 29 Cleft Sentence分裂句 and Pseudo-cleft Sentence拟似分裂句 Function: for emphasis Cleft sentence分裂句/ Emphatic sentence强调句 FACT: Jane gave a handbag to Mary at Christmas. RUMOR: John gave a handbag to Mary at Christmas. Emphasis: It was Jane who gave a handbag to Mary at Christmas. Cleft sentence分裂句/ 强调句 Form： It is/ was +focal element + that/ who (if the focal element is human) It is … that does/ have done/ have been doing It was… that did/ had done/ had been doing Cleft sentence Function: to emphasize elements other than verb强调除句中动词之外的成份 FACT: Jane gave a handbag to Mary at Christmas. Cleft sentences: It was Jane who gave a handbag to Mary at Christmas. It was a handbag that Jane gave to Mary at Christmas. It was to Mary that Jane gave a handbag at Christmas. It was at Christmas that Jane gave a handbag to Mary. Cleft sentence It is not by the mode of representing and saying, but by what is represented and said, that the respective greatness either of the painter or of the writer is to be finally determined. Attention: pp334-335 Pseudo-cleft sentence 1. Form What he does/ has done/ will do is (to) give… What he is doing/ has been doing/ will be doing is practicing… 2. Function: to emphasize verb What Jane did was (to) give a handbag to Mary. Cleft Sentence分裂句 and Pseudo-cleft Sentence拟似分裂句 Exercise 29D (p336) Coordinate Construction 并列结构 Pattern: with coordinators and, but, or, etc. Parallel in form and function形式和功能/成份相同: noun phrases, adjective phrases, adverb phrases, prepositional phrases, and clauses (dependent and dependent; independent and independent): Coordinate Construction并列结构 The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use. If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. (George Bernard Shaw) Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Coordinate Construction并列结构 I call an idea great as it is received by a higher faculty of the mind, an