1. It作先行主語和先行賓語的.一些句型 She had said what it was necessary to say.
2. 強調句型 It is not who rules us that is important, but how he rules us.
3. All+抽象名詞或抽象名詞+itself(very+形容詞)He was all gentleness to her.
4. 利用詞彙重複表示強調 A crime is a crime a crime.
5. something(much)of和nothing(little)of something of相當於to some extent，表示程度。在疑問句或條件從句中，則爲anything of ，可譯爲有點，略微等。譯爲毫無，全無。much of譯爲大有，not much of可譯爲算不上，稱不上，little of可譯爲幾乎無。something like譯爲有點像，略似。
They say that he had no university education, but he seems to be something of a scholar.
6. 同格名詞修飾是指of前後的兩個名詞都指同一個人或物，of以及它前面的名詞構一個形容詞短語，以修飾of後面的那個名詞。如her old sharper of a father，可譯爲：她那騙子般的父親。Those pigs of girls eat so much.
7. asascan(may)be It is as plain as plain can be.
8. It is in(with)as in(with) It is in life as in a journey.
9. as good as相等於，就像，幾乎如;實際上，其實，實在。
The merchant as good as promised the orphan boy, that he would adopt him.
