Emphasis

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The party isn't on Saturday - it's on Friday. Will your German friend be there? - He's Dutch not German.
When we want to give emphasis to a word or phrase (make it more important), we can speak it with extra stress.
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Emphatic stress
In writing we can underline the word to give it emphasis. In a book the word can be printed differently. (Bold, italic)
These motorways aren't necessary. I think they are necessary. They shouldn't build them. I think they should build them.
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We use the emphatic form of the verb to give emphasis to the meaning of a whole sentence. Auxiliary and modal verbs are stressed in the emphatic form.
People don't use them. But people do use them. You didn't come on the motorway. I did come on the motorway.
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The simple present and simple past tenses have an emphatic form with do. The form of do is stressed.
Emphatic word order
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If we want to give emphasis to a word or phrase, we can put it at the beginning of the clause or sentence.
"Eatwell" the restaurant was called.
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We can do this with a complement
the steak was nice, but this pudding I don't like at all.
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We can do this with an object
Slowly the restaurant began to fill up.
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We can do this with an adverb
It was your wife who told us the news.
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We can use it + be and a relative clause to give emphasis to a noun phrase, e.g. your wifw.
It was in 1979 that we went to Yugoslavia.
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We can use it + be to give emphasis to an adverb or adverb phrase, e.g. in 1979.
It's Bob I'm looking for, not Mike.
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We can leave out Who or that when it is the object of the relative clause or when there is a preposition.
It wasn't me that broke the window.
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If we use a pronoun after it + be, we use the object form, e.g.me.
I need a good sleep. What I need is a good sleep. I'm going to go to bed. What I'm going to do is go to bed.
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We can use what + clause + be to give emphasis to a word or phrase, e.g. a good sleep. what = the thing that
Emphatic use of here and there
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We use here and there at the beginning of a sentence to draw someone's attention to (=make someone look at) something that we can see.
The bus is late, Here it comes now, look. Here comes the bus. Where are the books? There they are. There are the books, over there.
Here it comes. Here comes the bus.
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We can use here or there to begin a sentence. The verb is the present tense of be or a verb in the simple present tense (usually come or go).
If the subject is a pronoun, it comes before the verb. If the subject is a phrase with a noun, it comes after the verb.

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