① Who is it that keeps borrowing my umbrella?

② Do you know what it is that the police suspect?

③ I don’t know how long it is that you have lived here.

① It is I that am responsible for that.

② They believed that it was freedom that they fought for.

③ It is a delight in rhythm that makes us like to dance or march or keep time with music in any other way.

④ It is not how much a man may know, that is of importance, but the end for which he knows it.

⑤ Albert Einstein changed the world we live in. It was he who fathered, for better or for worse, the atomic age.

⑥ There is neither good nor bad in any scientific discovery; it is use to which it is put which makes it beneficial or dangerous.

⑦ It was because she was ill (that) we decided to return.

① Though he entreated me earnestly, I thought it wise to give him a flat refusal.

② The distance of the stars are so great that astronomers have found it too inconvenient to speak of them even in millions of kilometres.

③ I was carried downstairs on a stretcher; my mother considered it out of the question for me to walk.

④ Don’t you find it very unpleasant walking in the rain?

⑤ She thought it little use trying to look younger than she was.

⑥ The newspapers have it that the firm is almost bankrupt.

⑦ You may depend upon it that she will consent.

⑧ I will see to it that everything is ready for your departure.

① It is a crime to defy the law.

② He is rich; he does not know what it is like to be poor.

③ It is common in a large city, for families that have lived for years in the same building not to know one another by name.

④ It would be all wrong for a scientist to get emotional when he describes a daffodil; and it would be all wrong for a poet not to.

⑤ It is no use trying to persuade him.

⑥ It is no use your trying to deny the fact.

⑦ It is no good politicians talking like that.

⑧ It is curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.

⑨ It is worth while visiting South Sea Islands.=South Sea Islands are worth visiting.

⑩ In order to master the English language, it is necessary to understand the structure of the English sentence.

① It was ten or fifteen minutes past eight when she came.

② We had fine weather, but before long it clouded over.

③ How long does it take to drive from here to villa?

④ It was not long before the English family went back to their home in England.

⑤ It was long before I realized that the only thing that mattered to me in the work of art was what I thought about it.

⑥ It seems that his father is very angry.

⑦ It seemed as if the place was not occupied by anyone.

⑧ It was as though he were in search of something.

⑨ It must be that she really loves you.

⑩ Probably in a modern city the man who can distinguish between a thrush’s and a blackbird’s song is the exception. It is not that we have not seen the birds. It is simply that we have not noticed them. We have been surrounded by birds all our lives, yet so feeble is our observation that many of us fail to distinguish the song of one from that of the other.

⑪ It (just so) happened that there was a meeting on that day.

⑫ There is very often a warm interval in February, sometimes a few days earlier and sometimes later, but as a rule it happens that a week or so of mild sunny weather occurs about this time.

① Well do I remember the scene, which I stood with Jane at the window to admire.

② Many a time did she give me good advice.

③ Had there been no other girls at the party, Mary would have gone home.

④ Were he to come, I should refuse to see him.

⑤ Neither before nor since the time of Shakespeare has any writer shown such a wonderful knowledge of the mind of man as is shown by Shakespeare in his wonderful plays.

⑥ Not only did he refuse to help me but he did so in a very rude manner.`

⑦ Well may he complain of the misfortunes that have befallen him.

⑧ More than women realize do men long for a little romance, a little colour in their lives.

⑨ The more carefully nature has been studied, the more widely has order been found to prevail.

⑩ This did she promise, but she didn’t carry it out.

=She promised this, but she didn’t carry it out.

⑪ This proposal did he object to.

⑫ Not a word did he say at the meeting.

① A heavy step was heard upon the stairs, and an instant later there entered a tall, ruddy, clean-shaven gentleman.

② There chanced to be no one in the house.

= It chanced that there was no one in the house.

③ There are strange things happening to us.

= Strange things are happening to us.

④ There haven’t been any robbers seen about here for a long time.

= No robbers have been seen about here for a long time.

⑤ There must be no more time wasted.

= No more time must be wasted.

⑥ Here’s Mr. Harris wanting to see you.

= Mr. Harris is wanting to see you.

⑦ The very bigness of America creates the belief that America is different, is somehow exceptional, that there

is reserved for its citizens another destiny from that which is to befall the Old World.

① May there never be another world war!

=I hope that there will never be another world war.

② May the Lord protect you.

③ Italian flags were waved amid shouts of “Long live Italy.”

= Italian flags were waved amid shouts of “May Italy live long.”

④ Let it be remembered that the season was early May.

= Be it remembered that the season was early May.

⓪ I know him to be a brave man.

① Any book of which we say to ourselves, when we have done with it, ‘That is a good book,’ we find to be so by virtue of the writer’s personality which we have been in contact with.[O-S-V-C倒置]

② The older we get, the more we understand the destiny that rules all things. What we think at twenty-five was a trifling accident, at seventy-five we know to have been the enormous gesture of God.[O-S-V-C倒置]

③ God keeps safe those who fear him and condemns the wicked.[S-V-C-O倒置]

④ Rather virtuous we used to think his wife.[C-S-V-O倒置]

① Whether he’s coming or not, I can’t tell you.[Od-S-V-Oi倒置]

② He asked for it, but his mother didn’t give it him.[S-V-Od-Oi倒置]