Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 71', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 960 WORD ORDER AND RELATED SYNTACTIC CHOICES 2 What I do object to is violence on TV. news noun phrase object of prepositional verb 3 What you should do is tag them when they come in. conv bare infinitive clause predicate 4 What he did was to go to Holy Trinity Church. fict to-infinitive clause predicate 5 What they will be hoping for is that they can get to a few months before the next election take the brakes off and try to deceive people once again things are back on course news that-dause complement of verb hope Wh-defts are less flexible than it-defts in that they cannot be used to focus on a prepositional phrase an adverb phrase or an adverbial clause. Compare 6 What she admires in him is the unwounded boy of twenty years ago. It is to that boy that she has remained faithful . The other boy who is drinking his tea is watching her. fict While an it-deft is possible as an alternative to the wh-deft in the first sentence here . It is the unwounded boy that she admires there is no alternative to the it-deft in the second sentence. Wh-defts on the other hand permit focus on a nominal clause and on the verb plus accompanying elements in the predicate as in 3 4 and 5 above this possibility is excluded with it-defts. Reversed wh-defts Some reversed wh-defts look exactly like ordinary wh-defts apart from the position of the wh-clause in relation to the focused dement. The focused dement is in bold in the examples bdow and the wh-clause placed in 1 A And you can fly on a Sunday -from Birmingham. B Yeah. It s a lot A to there. C Yeah A You see a weekend flight is what you want conv noun phrase direct object 2 To all appearances he was drifting. In actuality he was drifting. Drifting is what one does when looking at lateral truth fict ing-partidple verb phrase 3 There s a lot more darkness in this second TV series compared with the last one but darkness is what comedy is all about . news noun phrase complement of preposition 4 Poor Albert Carrie said . . He .
