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had the gesture
of a few kind 
words to
Thorpe 
been permitted 
him. 
(Heym)
It must be borne in mind that emphatic order does not necessarily mean inversion; emphasis 
may be also achieved by the prominent position of some part of the sentence without 
inversion, i. e. without placing the predicate before the subject.
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Here we shall only mention a peculiar way of making almost any part of the sentence 
emphatic. This is achieved by placing 
it is 
or 
it 
was before the part of the sentence which is to 
be emphasized and a clause introduced by the relative pronoun 
who 
or 
that, 
by the 
conjunction 
that 
or without any connective after it. 
So 
it’s you
that have disgraced the family. 
(Voynich)
It is not in Mr. Rochester
he is interested. 
(Ch. Bronte)
Father appreciated him. 
It was on father’s suggestion
that he went to law 
college. 
(London)
Position of the object.

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The usual position of the object in declarative sentences is after the predicate (see Chapter 
XV, § 26). However, in exclamatory sentences the direct object may occupy the first place. 
What wonderfully blue 
eyes you have, Ernest! 
(Wilde)
This position of the object generally does not cause inversion, except in poetry, high prose, 
and negative exclamatory sentences. 
Thee 
would 
I 
spare 
— nay more — would save thee now! 
(Byron)
Passage after passage 
did 
he 
explore
,room after room did he peep into! 
(Dickens)
In declarative sentences the front position of the object serves the purpose of emphasis. In 
Russian this position of the object is common (e. g. Волейболом он увлекался в юности, а 
теперь играет только в теннис); in English it occurs but seldom.