tailieunhanh - The grammar book eacher course 88

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book eacher course 88', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 30 Focus and Emphasis 613 a pure fabrication That fabrication is pure. an outright lie This lie is outright. a mere child The child is mere. We distinguish these emphatic adjectives from amplifying adjectives which may occur in both attribute and predicate position a complete victory The victory was complete. their extreme condemnation Their condemnation was extreme. his great folly His folly was great. Emphatic Logical Connectors Halliday and Hasan 1976 suggest that some logical connectors are more emphatic than others. Thus for expressing addition and is a nonemphatic connector whereas furthermore moreover and some others are emphatic and thus not appropriate unless the discourse context merits special emphasis with respect to the logic of the connection see Chapter 26 for more discussion on when to use furthermore and moreover -. John went to the store and he bought some bread. John went to the store -i 1 he bought some bread. I moreover J John talked us into going out for dinner moreover he insisted on paying the bill. Syntactic Means for Expressing Focus and Emphasis Marked Word Order Marked word order can be defined as the movement of a constituent into a position in the sentence where we would not ordinarily expect to find it . it would not be generated by the phrase structure rules in that position . Sometimes other syntactic elements present in the sentence must be moved around to produce a grammatical sentence. The reasons for employing word-order focus that have most frequently been identified and described are discourse constraints . the management of given and new information and the expression of counterexpectancy contrast or emphasis. Next we outline several different types of marked word order. Object-Subject-Verb Word Order Fronting the object to first position in a sentence tends to be a stylistic feature of spoken rather than written English and it can appear in contexts where a strong contrast is being made Him I like her I don t.