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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
- to help us focus on a particular part of the sentence
- Are useful in...
- writing where we cannot use intonation for purposes of focus or emphasis
- speech.
- writing where we cannot use intonation for purposes of focus or emphasis
- 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
- adore
- 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
- linked to the clause that we want to focus on with is or
was.
- the reason why
- 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
- that
- use it in cleft sentences and join
the words that we want to focus on to the
relative clause with...
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