of emphasis:
The subject, verb, direct object, object complement order:
they considered all their children except the youngest extremely clever
could be altered to subject, verb, object complement, object:
they considered extremely clever all their children except the youngest
Implications for the classroom
Learners need to be aware that:
a) meaning depends on sentence structure as well the choice of words
b) phonological features - especially stress and intonation contribute systematically to meaning
c) just as words require their immediate context in order to yield their full meaning, so the information in sentences is dependent on the wider context to be fully understood.
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