WORD ORDER. EMPHASIS. INVERSION
I. WORD ORDER AND EMPHASIS
Part 1. Test Your Knowledge
Answer the questions.
1. What are the two ways of arranging words in an English sentence?
2. What is the most common pattern of word order in a declarative sentence?
3. What is end-focus?
4. What is end-weight?
5. Why do English native speakers tend to avoid predicates consisting of just a single intransitive verb?
6. What is the topic of a sentence?
7. What is fronting?
8. Besides fronting what other ways of giving prominence to this or that part of a sentence do you know?
9. What is the structure of a cleft sentence?
10. What do wh-cleft sentences highlight?