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with a clause or toinfinitive (preferable),but with the ving form we prefer the real subject at the beginning. Tip ( preferable) Smoking is difficult to stop.= ( preferable)Travelling to Beijing takes up a lot of my time.= 2. It can also be used before seem, appear, happen, chance, turn out and prove as the empty subject of a sentence.: a. He seems to speak two languages. b. My new neighbour happens to e from my home town. It seems that he speaks two languages.= It happens that my new neighbour es from my home town.= 3. We can emphasize the subject, object, or adverbial in a sentence by using it +be+ the word/phrase you emphasize+ a clause introduced by that or who. was last night(not any other time) that I read about the history of English. If we do not emphasize anything ,the sentence can be: I read about the history of English last night. 強(qiáng)調(diào)句 : is Prof. Li who teaches us English. 強(qiáng)調(diào)主語(yǔ) is English that teaches us. 強(qiáng)調(diào)賓語(yǔ) was in Shanghai that I saw the film. 強(qiáng)調(diào)狀語(yǔ) III. Exercises: A on Page 31 B on page 31 Answers: A. 2. It depends upon what you see B. and hear to decide what they are. C. 3. It always puzzles me why my dog D. barks in certain ways. E. 4. It won’ t be difficult buying F. a machine like this. . 2. It is because there are several H. racial groups living in Singapore I. that Singapore has four official langueges. J. 3. It is for you that I’ ve brought K. something special from Singapore. L. 4. It will be something next week M. th