Grammar 8
Emphatic Structure
Target: Emphatic Structure 强调结构 A. 强调结构是指在句子当中,有时为了突出句子的某些成分以加强语气,增 强情感色彩或加强词汇手段 / 语法手段
词汇手段
用awfully, badly, dead, deeply, ever, extremely, highly, indeed, lightly, not…at all, particularly, pretty, really, so, strongly, terribly, utterly, very, very much, 等副词修饰以加强语 气。 He wants to get it very much. 他非常想得到它。 I miss you terribly. 我非常思念你。
用短语at all, on earth, in the world, under the sun 等表示强调,意思是:到底,究竟,根本。 I don’t know at all. 我一点也不知道。 What on earth are you doing there? 你到底在 那干什么? What the hell happened?
B. 语法手段强调
用It is / was … that/ who… 句型表示强调。被强调的部分(通常 是句子的主语、状语、宾语或宾语补足语)放在is / was的后面, 被强调的是人,则后面可用who, whom等代替。 He met an old friend in the park yesterday. 他昨天在公园碰见一个 老朋友。 上述句子可以通过强调句型对除谓语意外的不同成分进行强调。如: It was he who/that met an old friend in the park yesterday.(强调 主语) It was an old friend that / who he met in the park yesterday. (强调 宾语) It was in the park that he met an old friend yesterday.(强调地点状 语) It was yesterday that he met an old friend in the park.