E M P H A T I C C O N S T R U C T I O N S

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Translate the following sentences, paying attention to emphatic constructions.

1. It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one’s country.

2. It is the mathematicians that are the true inheritors of Pythagoreanism.

3. Although it was known for a long time that light is a form of energy, it was not until Maxwell discovered its electromagnetic character that most of its behaviour was satisfactorily explained.

4. It is to German philosophy of the nineteenth century that we must turn for a systematically developed conception of all things as ongoing ceaseless change.

5. It was the philosopher Hegel who first gave the best account of a completely evolving universe.

6. It is not society as such but society as a definite system of men’s material and ideological relationships that constitute the subject matter of historical materialism.

7. It is not only through the reading of history but also through the contemplation of what it has left us – works of art, sites and monuments – that we gain a better understanding of how we have become what we are.

8. It is because people live by social production that human societies have a history different in kind from, say, the history of community of ants.

9. Only gradually did modern thinkers realize that, in addition to logic, moral philosophy and physics, there are other distinct modes and directions for philosophic discovery.

10. Thus it is known that birds do not keep direction by orientating themselves in the earth’s magnetic field, neither apparently, does memorizing the route play an essential part.

11. Not only chemistry was completely transformed by the basic changes in physics but so was biology.

12. It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. (Gandhi)

13. Older men declare the war. But it is the youth that fight and die. (Hoover)

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