常见考法:
(1) 用介词短语作为被强调的部分。如:
It was for this reason that he left that school.
It was in this way that he solved the problem.
(2) 用时间状语从句、条件状语从句等作为被强调的部分。如:
It was only when I reread his poems that I began to appreciate their beauty.
(3) 用 not until 复杂结构作为被强调的部分。如:
It was not until she took off her dark glasses that I realized she was a film star.
It was not until 1920 that regular radio broadcasts began.
(4) 在被强调的部分后接定语从句,使句子结构更加复杂。如:
It was on July 7th 1975 when he was born that his father died.
(5) 通过句型转换来进行考查。如把肯定句改成一般疑问句或特殊疑问句,或把肯定句改成否定句或否定疑问句等。例如:
Was it during the Second World War that he died?
When was it that the sports meeting began?
It was not Tom that stole the book.
Wasn’t it he that had made a mistake?
(6) 通过改变系动词的形式来进行考查。强调句型的系动词除了用 is 或 was外,还可以在其前面加上 may/might/must 等表示推测的情态动词。如:
It might be him that you met yesterday.