Emphasis & fronting
Grammar · C1 · 10 printable sheets, each with an answer key.
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- Sheet 1 · 45 minEmphasis and fronting in travel writing: down the street came a bandFronting, emphatic do, inversion and clefts to create vivid effects in travel and culture writing.Free
- Sheet 2 · 40 minEmphasis in business presentations: what we need now is focusClefts, emphatic do, inversion and fronting to make presentation messages more persuasive.Premium
- Sheet 3 · 30 minGrammar explained: emphasis & frontingEmphatic do / did, the very, whatsoever, on earth, and fronting.Premium
- Sheet 4 · 30 minGrammar explained: emphasis & fronting – negative inversionNever have I…, not only…, hardly… when: inversion after negatives.Premium
- Sheet 5 · 20 minEmphasis & fronting: noticing it in a travel articleFind fronted and emphatic structures in a travel article, match them to plain versions and check the rules.Premium
- Sheet 6 · 20 minEmphasis & fronting: emphatic do, does and didUse do, does and did to contradict, insist and invite, and see why be takes stress instead.Premium
- Sheet 7 · 20 minEmphasis & fronting: objects and complements firstRecognize correct fronting of objects and complements, rewrite neutral sentences and express your own tastes.Premium
- Sheet 8 · 20 minEmphasis & fronting: place adverbials and inversionUse full inversion after fronted place and movement phrases, and see why pronoun subjects do not invert.Premium
- Sheet 9 · 20 minEmphasis & fronting: concession with as and thoughRewrite although-clauses as Strange as it may seem, Much as I, Try as they might, and use them to describe challenges.Premium
- Sheet 10 · 20 minEmphasis & fronting review: rewriting for impactCheck mixed emphasis structures, transform neutral sentences and rewrite a flat review so it has real impact.Premium