Unit 25 Electronic Publishing Emphasising: cleft sentences

Compare these sentences: 1. We need an electronic version available anywhere and updated regularly. 2. What we need is an electronic version available anywhere and updated regularly. In (2) the object of the sentence is made more important. We can use What ...be in this way to emphasise the subject or object of a sentence.

Now compare these: 3. Babbage invented the world's first mechanical computer. 4. It was Babbage that invented the world's first mechanical computer. 5. It was the world's first mechanical computer that Babbage invented. We can use /f is/was... that to emphasise almost any part of a sentence.

I Rewrite these sentences to emphasise the underlined words.

1. These days you never know when your computer system will go down due to viruses, sabotage or natural disaster.

2. We suggest that everyone back-up their files regularly.

3. Over the past 10 years ECO Data Recovery has saved many individuals and companies by retrieving their lost data!

4. The installation of a firewall coupled with anti-virus protection will greatly reduce your chances of becoming a hacker's next victim.

5. In early 2000 most people became aware of the dangers of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks when a series of them knocked such popular Web sites as Yahoo, CNN, and Amazon off the air.

6. Spindle motor failure can result from excessive heat due to a bearing failure.

7. Everyone knows that computers are constantly getting faster, more powerful, and less expensive.

8. Most sound cards give you the power to plug in speakers and a microphone.

9. Movies on DVD can also have more than one sound track.

10. Most computer users never change how their file and folder windows look.

Prefixes, -ise verbs

These prefixes are common in IT terminology. Quantity prefix meaning examples bi two bi-directiona uni one uni-direction tera 1012 terabyte* giga 109 gigahertz mega 106 megahertz kilo 103 kitohm milli 10-3 millisecond macro large macroinstruc micro small microcomputer multi many multimedia (* approximate decimal value)

Prepositions prefix meaning examples anti against anti-virus software intra below infrared intra within intranet inter between Internet hyper above, beyond hyperlink tele distant, far telecom-munications Others prefix meaning examples auto by itself automated cyber machine control cyberspace super higher in quantity or degree superhighway