英语中最常见的修饰成分是定语，用于说明名词的品质与特征。而可以作定语的成分包括形容词、名词、代词、数词、不定式、动名词、分词、介词短语、从句等。比如：
原：Young people should be condemned.
改：Young people giving up supporting their parents should be condemned.
（注：分词短语giving up supporting their parents作后置定语，修饰前面的young people。此外，可以将其变为定语从句who give up supporting their parents进行替换。）
2、句首添加状语
英语中的多数副词一般是放在动词后面，或者放在be动词、助动词或情态动词之后且实义动词之前（若实义动词后有宾语，则放于宾语之后）。而在写作中将其置前，可以起突出和强调的作用。比如：
Obviously/Interestingly/Ironically，what the picture conveyed should be given further analysis.
（1）用it作形式主语
结构：It be+adj./done/n.+that.../to do sth.
例：It is obvious that protecting environment is our compulsory duty and also a legal behavior.
（2）使用定语从句
（注：这个是英语写作中需要重点掌握的句式）
It goes without saying that the cartoon depicts four persons are competitively playing a football game, which captures our eyes successfully.
（3）使用双重否定
可以用no/not+表否定意义的形容词，如：It is not impossible (for sb.) to do sth.
也可以用no/not/never+without，如：sb. cannot do sth. without n./doing sth.
此外，还可以用no/not/never/nobody/few+具有否定意义的动词或短语，如：sb. never fail to do sth.
（4）使用倒装结构
一种情况是使用“Only+状语”置于句首，如：
Only in this way can we resolve the problem.
另一种情况是将否定词置于句首，如：
By no means should we turn a blind eye to such things of spoiling children.
（5）使用强调句
可强调动词，如：
I do expect that the issue of environment pollution can be settled as soon as possible.
也可强调句子某个成分，如：
It was persistence and optimism that made Thomas Edison bravely confront a variety of obstacles and other failures and then finally invent the electrical lamp.