(三)有关强调的问题
上面我们讲到,当需要强调句子的某一部分(通常是主语、宾语或状语)时,常用"It is (was)+被强调部分+who(that)..."结构。
如果要强调句中的谓语动词时,我们不用上面这种结构,而采用在谓语动词前加助动词do(有数、时态变化)的形式。例如:
I do hope you have a Merry Christmas!But the family did manage to send him to a technical school and later to the Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland.And in the end he did land us safely,but the ship sank soon after she reached Liverpool.
其中do hope,did manage,did land分别是hope,managed,landed的强调式。