英语断裂句初探

试观察下列句子: 1) It was his boss that John met in the street yesterday. 2) It was here that he chiefly differed from an Englishman. 3) Why is it that evefyone thinks I’m forward? 4) It was with the greatest difficulty that the boy gathered the strength to speak. 5) It was not for several years that I had an opportunity of seeing him again. 英语中包含上述所示的强调结构的句型称为断裂句(cleft senfence)。