Emphasis with Fronting and Do-support

• CEFR C1
• Grammar
• Printable
• Answer key

Emphasis with Fronting and Do-support is a printable grammar worksheet for English language learners at CEFR level C1. It covers fronted elements, emphatic do, and stylistic sentence focus, with 5 exercises and an answer key.

Advanced speakers use fronting and emphatic auxiliaries to control sentence focus.

Fronting moves important information to the beginning of the sentence: This question we must answer first.

Emphatic do, does, or did strengthens a contrast, correction, or insistence.

Examples

• This issue we cannot ignore.
• More worrying was the absence of reliable data.
• The policy did improve access in rural areas.
• What the report does show is a gradual change in behaviour.
• A full apology the public never received.
• Important though the results are, they remain incomplete.
• The first claim may be true; the second I strongly reject.
• The committee does need more time.

What's in this worksheet

1. Complete the sentence
2. Correct the mistake
3. Transform the sentence
4. Mixed practice
5. Controlled production

Common mistakes

• This issue cannot we ignore.  →  This issue we cannot ignore. Do not invert the subject and auxiliary after ordinary object fronting.
• More worrying the absence of data was.  →  More worrying was the absence of data. A fronted complement before be usually takes inversion.
• The policy did improved access.  →  The policy did improve access. Use base verb after emphatic did.
• The committee does needs more time.  →  The committee does need more time. Use base verb after emphatic does.