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
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. somethingof和nothingof
something of相當於to some extent，表示程度。在疑問句或條件從句中，則為anything of，可譯為有點，略微等。譯為毫無，全無。much of譯為大有，not much of可譯為算不上，稱不上，little of可譯為幾乎無。something like譯為有點像，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，可譯為：她那騙子般的父親。
Those pigs of girls eat so much.
