It was on a cold winter night that his father ran away from home and never came back.

Emphasis sentence pattern: It

Past/present

+the emphasized part +that clause, the emphasized part of this question is the adverbial of time: on

a

cold

winter

evening

Test center: inspect the key sentence patterns of it guidance.

Comments: This question belongs to the investigation of special sentence patterns in English. On the one hand, we should understand the basic composition and judgment methods of emphasized sentences. The specific method is to remove.

be

/was and that, the rest, if they are complete sentences, are stressed sentences. This is obviously a complete sentence, his

father

left

home

and

be

never

hardworking

exist

a

cold

winter

Even, as a strong sentence. On the contrary, it is not. In order to confuse students' accurate understanding of the stem, proposers usually combine the emphasis sentence pattern with the attributive clause.