Emphatic structures

Emphatic structures

Multiple Choice

Which response feels more stressed in this interaction?

• • - You don't ride a bike to school, do you?
    - I ride a bike to school.

• • - You don't ride a bike to school, do you?

  • - I do ride a bike to school.

Multiple Choice

How was the emphasis created?

• - You don't ride a bike to school, do you?

• - I do ride a bike to school.

• Changing the word order

• Adding auxiliary do

• Adding auxiliary be

• Changing only the intonation and stress

Multiple Choice

What type of sentence is it?

• - You don't ride a bike to school, do you?

• - I do ride a bike to school.

• affirmative

• negative

• question

• order

Multiple Choice

What happens if the sentence is in past?

• - You didn't ride a bike to school, do you?

• - I ___ ride a bike to school.

• do

• was

• did

• were

Emphasis with do/did

We use this feature when we want to put stress/weight on something, mostly in spoken English. For example, when we counter someone's point or emphasise an opposite fact.

Subject + do/did + verb
I + did + ride... a bike to school.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence feels more stressed?

• I have never seen such beauty!

• Never have I seen such beauty!

Multiple Choice

What is special about this sentence? (What changed compared to usual?)

Never have I seen such beauty!

• there is an extra auxiliary

• the word order

• we changed it to a question

​Negative inversion

We can emphasise a sentence by changing the word order and using a negative expression at the beginning.

Structure:
The negative expression + auxiliary verb (do, have, be) + subject + verb
Rarely + do + you + see... an actor this good.