Learner places the information they want emphasised at the end of the clause, and can say what each of two correct versions emphasises.
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Five parts and a question the sentence has to answer.
Build this sentence so that it answers the question: **what happened in the year after the ban?**
Six sentences, each offered with two questions it could answer.
The government introduced the scheme in 2019. Which question does this answer?
End focus, the same facts in two orders, and why neither is wrong.
Read a sentence aloud. Your voice rises near the end.
That is where the reader expects what they did not already know. The name for it is end focus.
The government introduced the scheme in 2019.
The date is the news.
One lamp, two positions, the same five objects.
The lamp does not move the objects. It moves what you see.
Six sentences with a question above each. Two need nothing.
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One set of facts, both orders, and what each emphasises.
Use these facts:
A city introduced free bus travel. It did so in 2020. Passenger numbers rose by 40%.
Version 1: end on the figure. Version 2: end on the year.
Then say, in one line each, what a reader would take away from each version.
One per line.
One line each.