0We are going to talk about ways of giving emphasis and speaking dramatically
1. The easiest and most well known way is to write the sentence in the passive voice,which shifts the emphasis from the subject to the object of a verb.
Example
This book is being read by me.( the object book is emphasized not the subject reader)
2. Inversion
Normal-
a) I had never seen a stronger man than him.
b) She was so beautiful that I fell in love with her
c) The spy came through the window
Inverted-
a).Never had I seen a stronger man than him
b) So beautiful was she ,that I fell in love with her
c) Through the window, came the spy
The 'it' cleft to emphasize different parts of a sentence
Ashok ate my lunch yesterday
1. Emphasize Ashok
It was Asok that ate my lunch
2. Emphasize lunch
It was my lunch that Ashok ate
3. Emphasize when the lunch was eaten
It was yesterday that Ashok ate my lunch
The 'what' cleft
Normal - They moved us to a new hotel
to emphasize the whole sentence
What they did was move us to a new hotel
