Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 67', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 904 WORD ORDER AND RELATED SYNTACTIC CHOICES that much which he learned in the former will have to be unlearned in the latter acad C Fronting of predicatives with subject-verb order Where the subject is an unstressed pronoun we find the same pattern without inversion as with fronting of direct objects and often with a single fbcus on the initial element Right you are conv They re tiles. Horrible they are conv Bloody amazing it was conv Pink as a fingernail it was and sprinkled with glittering chips fict The fronting has an intensifying effect which is often strengthened by the choice of words horrible bloody amazing etc. or by emphatic stress when spoken reflected by exclamation marks . Furthermore the fronted material is new rather than old information. Fronted predicatives with initial fbcus are related to structures with declarative tags You re a little devil you are conv Oh God it was magic it wasl conv It s terrible it is conv If the subject pronoun and the copular verb are ellipted as is frequently the case we get a structure with a fronted predicative . A little devil you are or Terrible it is. The following examples illustrate a special type of pattern with focus on the initial element A No their surname isn t anything even similar to that. B No. A Because - Jones - their name is conv Poplars it was called was it conv I don t know what her name is. Dot I think her name is. conv Peter Harronson he said he was called fict The initial predicative in these examples highlights the main purpose of the utterance establishing the name of a person or place and therefore contains the new information. The rest of the structure follows almost as an afterthought contains given information and is not in focus even though it may contain extensive lexical material. Note that the predicative may belong to an embedded clause as in the last two examples . D Fronted objects v. predicatives The choice to front objects or predicatives differs in important ways. .
