What are the ways of emphasizing a point of view in English?
Sorry, my question is not clear. What I really want to know is the sentence structures for emphasis.
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Here's a paragraph emphasizing a point of view about the negative effects of watching too much TV.
People shouldn’t watch too much television because the content of many TV programs is not educational. Nowadays, we can see movies, series, and shows that present scenes of violence, sex, and drugs. This has established wrong concepts among the audience that influence them into having a negative behavior. Moreover, the impact this tendency has on children is worse, because they grow up with the idea of a world where women must be slender and blonde to stand out, where problems can only be solved with money and violence, and where wars are inevitable.
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Here are some introductiry phrases that we can use at the beginning of a sentence to emphasise what we are going to say:
The thing/One thing/What I (don’t) like/love/hate/admire about … is ….
For example:
The thing I don’t like about this flat is the kitchen.
One thing I love about you is you always laugh at my jokes.
What I like about the flat is it’s so light.
The thing that/One thing that/What amazes/annoys/worries/upsets me about … is ….
For example:
The thing that amazes me about your mother is she never gets angry.
One thing that annoys me about you is you never give me time to look at a map.
What worries me about the size of the kitchen is I can’t help Polly with the cooking.
What irritates/bothers me about … is …
What irritates me about her is she’s always late.
Sentences introduced by a clause beginning with 'What' are usually used to emphasize something:
What he thinks isn’t necessarily true.
What we need is a good, skillful worker.
We can use auxilary verbs ‘do’ and ‘did’ in positive sentences in order to emphasize something we feel strongly:
No, that’s not true. He did speak to her.
I do believe that you should think twice about this situation.
Maybe you should get a map. – I did have a map!
Sentences introduced by ‘It is’ or ‘It was’followed by a relative pronoun are often used to emphasize a specific subject or object:
It was I who received the promotion.
It is the awful weather that drives me crazy.
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Do you mean in an essay? A point of view essay is also called a persuasive essay
1. Research your topic. Knowing your opinion is fine, but knowing facts to back up your opinion is even better. If your opinion is about a book, write down some relevant quotes and page numbers. If it's about a current event, read some newspapers.
2.Write the introduction. Discuss background information on your essay's topic, then clearly state your point of view.
3. Write the body of the essay. Write a paragraph for each main point of your argument. Usually three of these are sufficient. The final body paragraph should explain the main argument of the opposing viewpoint and why it is wrong.
4.Write the conclusion. This final paragraph should creatively restate your point of view and its supporting points.
5. Edit your essay. Print your point of view essay and use a colored pencil to edit mistakes. While this is possible to do on the computer, sometimes the change allows us to see mistakes that we missed on the screen.
6.Fix your mistakes. Fix any problems with the essay on the computer, using your printed and edited copy as a guide.
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