Chapter 2: Moving The Emphasis

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   Sprint 2.1: It Was X That

   Learner builds an it-cleft to single out one element of a sentence, and uses it only where something is being contrasted or corrected.

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   Sprint 2.2: What Matters Is

   Learner uses a what-cleft to hold a claim back until the end of the sentence, and knows it emphasises differently from an it-cleft.

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   Sprint 2.3: Putting It First

   Learner fronts an object or a complement for contrast, and recognises that the fronted element is a link backwards, not an emphasis by itself.

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   Sprint 2.4: Not Only, Rarely, Under No Circumstances

   Learner forms negative inversion correctly and uses it at most once in a piece of writing.

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   Sprint 2.5: Choosing Not To

   Learner writes a paragraph containing at most one emphatic device, and can say what each device they rejected would have cost.

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   Sprint 2.6: Two Devices, One Paragraph

   Learner combines a device from this chapter with the information-order principles of Chapter 1, so that emphasis and sequence agree rather than compete.

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7. 07

   Sprint 2.7: Chapter Repair — Devices, Unmarked

   Learner repairs a paragraph that over-uses emphatic devices, and one that under-uses them, without being told which is which.

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