文档介绍：Grammar & usage
Unit
4
Emphasis
Look at the following sentences. Pay
attention to the differences:
This is the book that you asked me to buy.

This is the just book that you asked me to buy.
I know his phone number.
I do know his phone number.
function ?
Emphasis
一、用词或短语帮助强调
so, such,very, just,really,
ever,right
You are the very person I am looking for.
Men don’t enjoy shopping at all.
What on earth are you doing?
Why in the world are you always late?
You are the only person who is honest in this world.
at all, on earth
in the world
I ______want to see it again.
Actually, the festival in Venice doesn’t _____ feature Hollywood films.
3) Why ______ did you do so?
4) That’s the _____textbook we used last term.
5. The manager was ______ in the office when I arrived at pany by metro
1. ever, very, right, really, just
really
just
---show emphasis
ever
very
right
He saw _______(如此多) new things he couldn’t remember them all.
I ate ________ (如此多)food yesterday.
I have never seen________________(如此可爱的孩子).
so many
+ adj./adv.
so much
so lovely a child
It was ______________(如此好的天气)we decided to go for a ic.
She told ______________ (如此有趣的笑话)that she was well received by us.
He made ________________ (如此快的进步)(that we all felt proud of him.
such a lovely day
such funny jokes
such rapid progress
such + adj. + n.
pletely entirely just
perfectly positively purely quite
really simply totally truly
3. adverbs --- show emphasis
All these adverbs can be used to
emphasize the verb or the adjective.
I _________ agree with you.
---Do you think so? ---__________ .
He said quite _________ that he e.
positively absolutely quite
quite
Absolutely
positively
4. in the world,on earth,at all, by no means(位于句首需用倒装)等介词短语可以表达更强的语气:
Where in the world could he be?他到底会在哪儿?
What on earth is it?
它究竟是什么?

Though we are good friends, I don’t agree with you at all this time.(根本不)
I have to point out that this job can by no means be plished overnight.(决不)