1.结构 It is(was) 加被强调部分,加that,人物用who,再加句子的其它成分,被强调部分可以是主语,宾语,地点状语短语,时间状语短语,伴随状语短语,原因状语短语,也可以强调状语从句:
例句:Mary , together Michael, went to buy a new CD player in Asian Trade Plaza last Sunday morning because she got her first scholarship in Wuhan.
A.强调主语
It was Mary who , together with Michael, went to buy a new CD player in Asian Trade Plaza last Sunday morning because she got her first Scholarship in Wuhan.
B.强调伴随状语短语
It was together with Michael that Mary went to buy a new CD player in Asian Trade Plaza last Sunday morning because she got her first scholarship in China.
C.强调宾语
It was a new CD player that Mary , together with Michael, went to buy in Asian Trade Plaza last Sunday morning because she got her first scholarship in Wuhan.
D.强调地点状语短语
It was in Asian Trade Plaza that Mary, together with Michael, went to buy a new CD player last Sunday morning because she got her first scholarship in Wuhan.
E.强调时间状语短语
It was last Sunday morning that Mary, together with Michael, went to buy a new CD player because she got her first scholarship in Wuhan.
F.强调原因状语从句
It was because she got her first scholarship in Wuhan that Mary, together with Michael, went to buy a new CD player in Asian Trade Plaza last Sunday morning.
2.用法 强调句型有陈述句(上述6句),一般疑问句和特殊疑问句以及反意疑问句四种句型。
A.强调句型的一般疑问句
The first Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei landed in Inner Mongolia on the early morning of October 12th after he had flown around the earth for 14 times in the spaceship made in China.
a.对主语提问
Was it the first Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei who landed in Inner Mongolia on the early morning of October 12th after he had flown around the earth for 14 times in the spaceship made in China? Yes, it was.
b.对地点状语提问
Was it in Inner Mongolia that the first Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei landed on the early morning of October 12th after he had flown around the earth for 14 times in the spaceship made in China? Yes, it was.
c. 对时间状语提问
Was it on the early morning of October 12th that the first Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei landed in Inner Mongolia after he had flown around the earth for 14 times in the spaceship made in China?
d.对时间状语从句提问
Was it after he had flown around the earth for 14 times in the spaceship made in China that the first Chinese astronaut Yang landed in Inner Mongolia on the early morning of October 12th? Yes, it was.
B.强调句型的特殊疑问句
例: Li Ping picked up a wallet at the gate of Wuchang Cinema when he went home on foot.
a.Who was it that picked up a wallet at the gate of Wuchang Cinema when he went home on foot? Li Ping.
b.What was it that Li Ping picked up at the gate of Wuchang Cinema when he went home on foot? A wallet.
c.Where was it that Li Ping picked up a wallet when he went home on foot?
At the gate of Wuchang Cinema
d.When was it that Li Ping picked up a wallet at the gate of Wuchang Cinema?
When he went home on foot.
C.强调句型的反意疑问句
例句:The early bus left the bus stop at seven with twenty passengers after the driver was given the permission.
a.It was the early bus that left the bus stop at seven with twenty passengers after the driver was given the permission, wasn’t it?
b. It was the bus stop that the early bus left at seven with twenty passengers after the driver was given the permission, wasn’t it?
c. It was at seven that the early bus left the bus stop with twenty passengers after the driver was given the permission, wasn’t it?
d. It was with twenty passengers that the early bus left the bus stop at seven after the driver was given the permission, wasn’t it?
e. It was after the drive was given the permission that the early bus left the bus stop at seven with twenty passengers, wasn’t it?
注意:一, 强调句型与定语从句区别开来:
比较:1. It was in nineteen eighty-nine that he joined the army when he was only seventeen and half years old. (强调时间状语短语; when是时间状语从句.)
汉语:他就是在19年仅十七岁半时参军的。
2. It was the year nineteen eighty-nine when there was a bad earthquake in the north of China.(不是强调句型,when引导定语从句。)
汉语: 那是华北发生大地震的19年。
3. It was in this house that the Red Army held an important meeting in 1935.( 强调地点状语短语)
汉语:红军于1935年就是在这间房子里召开了重要会议。)
4. It was the house that(which) he bought at a low price and then sold at a higher price later. (定语从句。)
汉语:它是由他先低价购进而后高价卖出的一间房子。
It was in the house where Lu Xun worked in his early thirties.
汉语:那是一间鲁迅三十年代早期工作的房子。
二,强调句型可以做宾语从句和主语从句:
1.What it was that he bought in Asian Trade Plaza last Sunday morning was written on the small piece of paper.
2.I don’t know why it was that he came to the meeting late yesterday morning.
3.Everyone knows it is in Wuchang Experimental High School that all the students are eager to be enrolled every year..
4.Where it was that the earthquake happened can be read in today’s newspaper.
Exercise:
Professor Peter gave the students in Grade Two a lesson on American history this morning in the meeting room while his wife was teaching the students in Grade one.