{"id":73834,"date":"2020-04-06T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T10:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73834"},"modified":"2020-04-06T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T10:47:59","slug":"how-to-emphasise-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/how-to-emphasise-a-word\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Emphasise A Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To put an emphasis on a particular word we can try placing it first. Consider the examples given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Though he was\u00a0<b>hurt,\u00a0<\/b>he played well.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hurt\u00a0<\/b>though he was, he played well. (emphasis on the word hurt)<\/li>\n<li>As she was\u00a0<b>shocked<\/b>\u00a0she could not find her way.<\/li>\n<li><b>Shocked\u00a0<\/b>as she was, she could not find her way. (emphasis on the word shocked)<\/li>\n<li>The frightened bird flew\u00a0<b>up.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Up\u00a0<\/b>flew the frightened bird. (emphasis on the word up)<\/li>\n<li>The guns boomed out\u00a0<b>unceasingly.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Unceasingly\u00a0<\/b>the guns boomed out. (emphasis on the word unceasingly)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Vary and improve sentences<\/h1>\n<p>One way to vary and improve sentences is to begin them with a phrase or an adverb. Note that adverbs sometimes need a comma after them.<\/p>\n<p>Read the examples given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The tennis matches will begin\u00a0<b>tomorrow.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Tomorrow<\/b>\u00a0the tennis matches will begin.<\/li>\n<li>The strong wind howled\u00a0<b>outside.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Outside,\u00a0<\/b>the strong wind howled.<\/li>\n<li>Koalas\u00a0<b>sometimes<\/b>\u00a0grunt.<\/li>\n<li><b>Sometimes\u00a0<\/b>Koalas grunt.<\/li>\n<li>Paul rushed\u00a0<b>wildly<\/b>\u00a0into the room.<\/li>\n<li>Wildly, Paul rushed into the room.<\/li>\n<li>I visited John\u00a0<b>during the winter.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>During the winter<\/b>, I visited John.<\/li>\n<li>The dog looked\u00a0<b>hungrily\u00a0<\/b>at the meat pie.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hungrily<\/b>\u00a0the dog looked at the meat pie.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>stupidly\u00a0<\/b>trod on a sleeping snake.<\/li>\n<li><b>Stupidly<\/b>\u00a0I trod on a sleeping snake.<ins id=\"aswift_2_expand\"><\/ins><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To put an emphasis on a particular word we can try placing it first. Consider the examples given below. Though he was\u00a0hurt,\u00a0he played well. Hurt\u00a0though he was, he played well. (emphasis on the word&#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":[2548,2549],"class_list":["post-73834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-emphasize-a-word","tag-how-to-improve-a-sentence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73834","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=73834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73835,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73834\/revisions\/73835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}