_____ we did was offer the app as a free download.
How
Thing
What
It was
Complete the dialogue using a cleft sentence.
It's a new printer you need, not an instruction manual/ What you need is.....
to/ people/ learn/ need/ relax/ do/ what/ is/ to
What people need to do is learn to relax
How many types of cleft sentence constructions are there?
2
3
4
1
_______ about Sydney is the weather.
It's what I don't like
Why I don't like
What I don't like
The reason I don't like
Correct the mistake: Is our chief programmer you need to talk to.
It's our chief programmer (who) you need to talk to.
is/ London/ about/ stand/ what/ can’t/ the/ I/ traffic
What I can't stand about London is the traffic.
_______ the details you need to pay attention to.
What's
It's
That's
How's
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.
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.
Why do we use cleft sentences?
For emphasis!
Correct the mistake: What happens was I lost his phone number and couldn't call him
What happened was.....
Change the sentence into a cleft sentence:
What you can't handle is the truth
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.
place
reason
what
thing
Change the sentence to a cleft sentence:
What I am is the king of the world
Change the sentence into a cleft sentence.
What I see are dead people/ It's dead people that I see
Change the sentence to a cleft sentence:
What we're gonna need is a bigger boat.