Grammatical rules of using the Emphasis

1. Emphasis

2.  Who was it that painted
my car red and green?
 It was me that did it.
 Well.. I just wanted to say
that not only does it look
lovely but it`s also drying
beautifully

3. The Emphatic Do

4. The verb do is used to
emphasize the predicate of the
sentence.
 We waited and waited,
and finally he did
come.
 Мы все ждали и
ждали, и наконец, он
все-таки пришел.

5. Double negation

6. The particle not before a negative
adjective or adverb serves to
emphasize the positive meaning
Not usual
Not possible
Not frequently
Вполне обычный
Весьма возможный
Довольно часто

7. Constructions
of this type
are not
unusual in
this country.

8. The emphatic construction
“ it is … That, What, Who,
Whom”

9. This construction emphasizes
some part of the sentence.
Is is always the unusual which alarms.
It was he who had started the discussion.

10. The emphatic construction
“it is not until … that”

11. When an adverbial modifier of
time is emphasized, it is rendered
in Russian by a simple affirmative
sentence with emphasizing words
It was not until noon that we were able to
resume our work.
Только в полдень мы смогли
возобновить работу.

12. The emphatic
“not … till until”

13. This negative construction is
rendered in Russian by means of
an affirmative sentence with the
emphatic words before the
adverbial modifier of time
Not tilluntil after = только после
They did not come back till late at night.
Они вернулись только поздно ночью.

14. Thank you for
attention!
Shakhmatova Irina