the emphatic pattern.pptVIP

The emphatic pattern Warming-up exercises Definition Common sentence patterns Seven emphatic forms Important points tested Practice Definition A rhetoric to express people’s will or feelings. The common structure is “It is (was)+ the emphatic part( subject, object or adverbial) + who (that)... Common sentence patterns emphasized 1. to emphasize declarative sentences It is/ was + the emphasized part (usually subject, object or adverbial) + that/ who（when emphasize subject and it refers to persons) + the rest e.g. It was yesterday that he met Li Ping. 2. to emphasize yes-no questions　　 e.