【口语救生圈Alex课堂】口语表达什么语序才合理(下期)
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Cleft sentence
Mike took Sally to the party on Saturday
1. It was Mike who took Sally to the party on Saturday.
2. It was Sally that Mike took to the party on Saturday.
3. It was on Saturday that Mike took Sally to the party.
4. It was to the party that Mike took Sally on Saturday.
● End-weight
长的、复杂的结构通常放在句尾 – 凸显信息的重要性 & 保持句子平衡
1.Children are sometimes discouraged by the length of time it takes to learn a musical instrument.
2.The length of time it takes to learn a music instrument sometimes discourages children.
1.It worried me that she hadn’t been in touch for so long.
2.That she hadn’t been in touch for so long worried me.
1.He made it clear that he was not in the least interested.
2.He made that he was not in the least interested clear.
● Spacing out – spoken structure
•It’s terrible, you know, the unemployment down there.
•It’s unbearable, you know, the environmental problems in my hometown.
•That guy who rang up, he’s an architect.
•The girl I met in our tutorial last week, I really don’t want to invite her to our party.
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