Emphasis sentences - Unit 05

For emphasising sentences we can use passive constructions.

example:
               The suspect was arrested by the police.

In this sentence we are emphasising "the suspect was arrested" in this case "by the police" is extra information,the most important thing here is tha the suspect was arrested.

Fronting

We can also change the clause´s order in the sentence, we can put it in the beginning,

example:
      What she thinks she is doing, I don´t know!

In this sentence the order was changed, normally we use this kind of sentence, in a different order. At the end as in the last sentence we are emphasising that she is doing somthing that we don´t.. the order was changed for emphasising the action.

Cleft sentences
This clause beginning with "it is, it was".

example:
              It was Juan who spotted the mistake.

In this sentence we are emphasising the person who did the mistake, who was Juan.

Reflections

When we want to emphasise something or someone we can use these three ways to do it... sometime we want to focus in who did somthing, so in that situation we can use the cleft sentence for emphasising who did the action... also we can use passive construtions for emphasising too... The main idea is to use this kind of sentences when we want to denote what happen or who did what.