{"id":73315,"date":"2020-03-23T09:40:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73315"},"modified":"2020-03-23T09:40:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:40:04","slug":"the-person-who-the-thing-that-words-used-to-emphasise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/the-person-who-the-thing-that-words-used-to-emphasise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Person Who, The Thing That | Words Used To Emphasise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emphasizing words using the structures <em>the person who, the thing that etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Study the following sentence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rani keeps a goat in the garden shed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This sentence doesn\u2019t put an emphasis on any part. Now we can rewrite this sentence putting the emphasis on Rani.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rani is the person who keeps a goat in the garden shed. OR The person who keeps a goat in the garden shed is Rani.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both of these sentences put an emphasis on the noun Rani.<\/p>\n<p>Now we can put the emphasis on the goat.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A goat is what Rani keeps in the garden shed.<\/li>\n<li>What Rani keeps in the garden shed is a goat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now we can put the emphasis on the phrase \u2018the garden shed\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The garden shed is the place where Rani keeps a goat.<\/li>\n<li>The place where Rani keeps a goat is the garden shed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More examples are given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mira works at a bank.<\/li>\n<li>Mira is the person who works at a bank. \/ The person who works at a bank is Mira. (Emphasis on Mira.)<\/li>\n<li>A bank is the place where Mira works. \/ The place where Mira works is a bank. (Emphasis on a bank.)<\/li>\n<li>Karan put a book on the table.<\/li>\n<li>Karan was the person who put a book on the table. \/ The person who put a book on the table was Karan.<\/li>\n<li>A book was what Karan put on the table.<\/li>\n<li>What Karan put on the table was a book.<\/li>\n<li>The table was the place where Karan put a book.<\/li>\n<li>The place where Karan put a book was the table.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Emphasizing verbs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To emphasize a verb, we use a structure with what\u2026do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She ran away.<\/li>\n<li>What she did was to run away.<\/li>\n<li>She makes model from clay.<\/li>\n<li>What she does is to make models from clay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Preparatory it<\/h3>\n<p>Study the following sentence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My mother bought me a Barbie doll yesterday.<\/li>\n<li>It was my mother who \/ that bought me a Barbie doll yesterday. (Emphasis on my mother)<\/li>\n<li>It was a Barbie doll that my mother bought me yesterday. (Emphasis on Barbie doll)<\/li>\n<li>It was yesterday that my mother bought me a Barbie doll. (Emphasis on yesterday.)<\/li>\n<li>Shiva won the gold medal in the 100m race.<\/li>\n<li>It was Shiva who \/ that won the gold medal in the 100m race.<\/li>\n<li>It was the gold medal that Shiva won in the 100m race.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emphasizing words using the structures the person who, the thing that etc. Study the following sentence. Rani keeps a goat in the garden shed. This sentence doesn\u2019t put an emphasis on any part. Now&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2153,2154],"class_list":["post-73315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-the-person-who","tag-the-thing-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73316,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73315\/revisions\/73316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}