Course: A1 - Elementary GRAMMAR SUMMARY Lessons: 6 to 10 Emphasis through Inversion: Fronting/Changing Word Order , Using an Auxiliary Verb, Restrictive Expressions - Cleft Sentences: Clefting with it’, What..Where...All, What Happened is/was... The Person Who../The Place Where. EMPHASIS THROUGH INVERSION Fronting/Changing Word Order Itis common in formal English to change the normal word order of a sentence to make it more emphatic. We do this by using ce and her Scottish accent is perfect = Not 1 ting superb, (but) her Scottish ac We won't lend money until you learn to sper Not until more. I've never seen such out Never have | seen such ou in a five-year-old. Everyone stood up and left as soon as tl an started to speak = No sooner had the politician sta and left. 0 speak than everyone stood up Perfectly Spoken* Page 1of 5 ‘All cours lessons and associated content i copyrightof Perfectly Spoken Limited ~ © Perfectly Spoken 2019. Alrights reservedCourse: A1 - Elementary GRAMMAR SUMMARY Lessons: 6 to 10 Emphasis through Inversion: Fronting/Changing Word Order , Using an Auxiliary Verb, Restrictive Expressions - Cleft Sentences: Clefting with it’, What..Where...All, What Happened is/was... The Person Who../The Place Where. Using An Auxiliary Verb In the present simple and past simple tenses, instead of inverting the subject and verb we use do/ does/ did + subject + main verb. EXAMPLES: Not only did was suppo: jan lose the wedding rings, but Not until d to learn a foreign language do you u difficult it : No sooner brother arrive than he began to cause Restrictive Exp We also use invers' Only then/whe EXAMPLES: | tidied the whole house. Only then was lable to put my feet up. Only when I had finished the first few chapters did | realize what was happening in the novel. Hardly had the baby stopped crying when her mum arrived. Rarely have I seen such an exceptional talent. Perfectly Spoken* Page 20f5 ‘All cours lessons and associated content i copyrightof Perfectly Spoken Limited ~ © Perfectly Spoken 2019. Alrights reservedCourse: A1 - Elementary GRAMMAR SUMMARY Lessons: 6 to 10 Emphasis through Inversion: Fronting/Changing Word Order , Using an Auxiliary Verb, Restrictive Expressions - Cleft Sentences: Clefting with it’, What..Where...All, What Happened is/was... The Person Who../The Place Where. CLEFT SENTENCES Acleft sentence emphasises a specific part of a sentence. We can use certain words/phrases at the beginning e.g. It... What.../All... e.g. ‘What the world needs now is love’ Clefting With ‘It’ be + emphasised info + thai EXAMPLE: Asimple cl Whei ergave her a ring ’ the clause we divide it into two: alf begins with It + form of the verb egins with who or that (relatiy Cleft clause: It was P In this example we are emp MORE EXAMPLES: Direct object Peter gave her a ring. It was her that Peter gave a ring to. Perfectly Spoken* Page 30f5 ‘All cours lessons and associated content i copyrightof Perfectly Spoken Limited ~ © Perfectly Spoken 2019. Alrights reservedCourse: A1 - Elementary GRAMMAR SUMMARY Lessons: 6 to 10 Emphasis through Inversion: Fronting/Changing Word Order , Using an Auxiliary Verb, Restrictive Expressions - Cleft Sentences: Clefting with it’, What..Where...All, What Happened is/was... The Person Who../The Place Where. Indirect object Peter gave hera ring. It was a ring that Peter gave her. Adverbial What..., WI 0 ‘cleft’ using a question word like Wha can also use the word A\llin certain cas EXAMPLES: The world need: What the wo You only need love. All you need is love. I'm not happy about the way he behave: What I'm not happy about is the e behaves We just want a bit of peace and quiet. All we want is a bit of peace and quiet. Jonly told him to stop shouting. All did was tell him to stop shouting. Perfectly Spoken* Page4 of 5 ‘All cours lessons and associated content i copyrightof Perfectly Spoken Limited ~ © Perfectly Spoken 2019. Alrights reservedCourse: A1 - Elementary GRAMMAR SUMMARY Lessons: 6 to 10 Emphasis through Inversion: Fronting/Changing Word Order , Using an Auxiliary Verb, Restrictive Expressions - Cleft Sentences: Clefting with it’, What..Where...All, What Happened is/was... The Person Who../The Place Where. What Happened Is/Was.... To emphasise an event or sequence of events we can use: What happens is (that) .../ What happened was (that) EXAMPLES: First you put on EXAMPLES: | booked his brother to play at our wedd. The person who | booked to play at our wedding was his brother. We got married in the local church. The place where we got married was our local church. Perfectly Spoken* Page5 of 5 ‘All cours lessons and associated content i copyrightof Perfectly Spoken Limited ~ © Perfectly Spoken 2019. Alrights reserved