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Delimiter between question and answer:

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  • No column headers.
  • Each line maps to a question.
  • If the delimiter is used in a question, the question should be surrounded by double quotes: "My, question","My, answer"
  • The first answer in the multiple choice question must be the correct answer.

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How many types of cleft sentence constructions are there?
 
4
 
3
 
2
 
1
Why do we use cleft sentences?
For emphasis!
Change the sentence into a cleft sentence (warning: this might be impossible!)
What you need to do is do something or do nothing. What you mustn't do is try.
Change the sentence into a cleft sentence:
What you can't handle is the truth
_______ about Sydney is the weather.
 
What I don't like
 
The reason I don't like
 
It's what I don't like
 
Why I don't like
to/ people/ learn/ need/ relax/ do/ what/ is/ to
What people need to do is learn to relax
Change the sentence to a cleft sentence:
What I am is the king of the world
Change the sentence to a cleft sentence:
What we're gonna need is a bigger boat.
is/ London/ about/ stand/ what/ can’t/ the/ I/ traffic
What I can't stand about London is the traffic.
Change the sentence into a cleft sentence.
What I see are dead people/ It's dead people that I see
Complete the dialogue using a cleft sentence.
It's a new printer you need, not an instruction manual/ What you need is.....
Correct the mistake: What happens was I lost his phone number and couldn't call him
What happened was.....
Rewrite the sentence as a cleft sentence, using the word in brackets: She likes his sense of humour most of all (What).
What she likes most about him is his sense of humour.
Correct the mistake: Is our chief programmer you need to talk to.
It's our chief programmer (who) you need to talk to.
Correct the mistake: What I would like more time in the office.
What I would like is more time in the office.
The _____ why it didn't work is that we didn't plan carefully.
 
reason
 
thing
 
what
 
place
_______ the details you need to pay attention to.
 
It's
 
What's
 
How's
 
That's
_____ we did was offer the app as a free download.
 
What
 
How
 
It was
 
Thing
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