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Cleft Sentences
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Mind Map on Cleft Sentences, created by rosgabi30 on 02/05/2014.
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Cleft Sentences
Are used...
to help us focus on a particular part of the sentence
to emphasise what we want to say
Are useful in...
writing where we cannot use intonation for purposes of focus or emphasis
speech.
Cleft structures include
the reason why
the thing that
the person/people who
the place where
the day when
what-clauses
linked to the clause that we want to focus on with is or was.
often used with verbs expressing an emotive response to something like
adore
dislike
enjoy
hate
like
loathe
love
need
prefer
want
often used with does/do/did and with the verb happen when we want to give emphasis to the whole sentence
use all instead of what in a cleft structure if you want to focus on one particular thing and nothing else
preparatory it
use it in cleft sentences and join the words that we want to focus on to the relative clause with...
that
who
when
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