Stress the auxiliary do - And how do you locate them?
"Much to my dismay, when I asked her out, the reply was an emphatic refusal.""The candidate was very emphatic in his speech against animal testing.""The Miami Heat were put to an emphatic end when they were beaten by over fifty points."
Verbs don't come at the end of a complete sentence. If you have a command like -- Sit down! -- then this sentence consists of a verb only.
Her languid attempt to seduce me was not totally meaningful to me. Her emphatic plea was totally meaningful at the time.
For the same reason many other languages do; to express different actions or states of being in the same sentence.
Verbs don't modify, verbs tell what the subject is or is doing. The verb is the 'action' word in a sentence. Example use of verbs:Ms. Brown is my teacher.My new job starts next week.That was a good movie.We can eat at my house.
Emphatic/imperative forms use the verb in basic form: sit down! come here! catch! Progressive or continuous verbs are not used in emphatic forms
"Much to my dismay, when I asked her out, the reply was an emphatic refusal.""The candidate was very emphatic in his speech against animal testing.""The Miami Heat were put to an emphatic end when they were beaten by over fifty points."
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Verbs and nouns (or pronouns) are the basis of a sentence. Nouns (or pronouns), the subject of a sentence and a verb form a sentence or a clause.
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Verbs don't come at the end of a complete sentence. If you have a command like -- Sit down! -- then this sentence consists of a verb only.
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Please help me locate my glasses.
In emphatic sentences the subject of the sentence is not stated it is implied.eg Sit down. Be quiet. The subject is you. ie You sit down. You be quietThe form of the verb is the base form so for cost the form is cost. But it would be hard to write an emphatic sentence for cost.Another way of showing emphasis is to use - do + base verbI do help!
Her languid attempt to seduce me was not totally meaningful to me. Her emphatic plea was totally meaningful at the time.
We can give nebulous definitions.
It just means to emphasize something greatly. And example would be: The President gave a robust where he emphatically made his points. or The emphatic mobster screamed at his counter-part to deliver the money owed to him.