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. 利用詞匯重復表示強調

　　A crime is a crime a crime.

　　5. somethingof和nothingof

　　something of相當于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前后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后面的那個名詞。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.