规则22 把句子中需要强调的词放在句末[rule-22]

写作者想要最突出的词或词组，在句子中恰当的位置通常是句末。

• 误：Humanity has hardly advanced in fortitude since that time, though it has advanced in many other ways.
• 正：Since that time, humanity has advanced in many ways, but it has hardly advanced in fortitude.

• 误：This steel is principally used for making razors, because of its hardness.
• 正：Because of its hardness, this steel is used principally for making razors.

有资格占据这一突出位置的词或词组，通常是逻辑谓语——也就是句子中的新信息，正如第二个例子那样。圆周句的效果来自它给予主句陈述的突出地位。

Four centuries ago, Christopher Columbus, one of the Italian mariners whom the decline of their own republics had put at the service of the world and of adventure, seeking for Spain a westward passage to the Indies to offset the achievement of Portuguese discoverers, lighted on America.

With these hopes and in this belief I would urge you, laying aside all hindrance, thrusting away all private aims, to devote yourself unswervingly and unflinchingly to the vigorous and successful prosecution of this war.

句子中另一个突出的位置是句首。句子中除主语之外的任何成分，被放在句首时都会受到强调。

Deceit or treachery she could never forgive.

Vast and rude, fretted by the action of nearly three thousand years, the fragments of this architecture may often seem, at first sight, like works of nature.

Home is the sailor.

出现在句首的主语可能受到强调，但很难仅凭位置做到。在下面这个句子里，

Great kings worshiped at his shrine

对kings的强调很大程度上来自它的意义和上下文。要获得特别的强调，句子的主语必须占据谓语的位置。

Through the middle of the valley flowed a winding stream.

最应突出的内容应放在末尾这条原理，同样适用于句子中的词、段落中的句子，以及文章中的段落。