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LIFT - Session 03 - Cleft Sentences

LIFT - Session 03 - Cleft Sentences

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Cleft Sentences

We sometimes use cleft sentences when we want to give emphasis on a particular part of the sentence, usually by splitting a sentence into two parts.

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It-cleft

We use the it-cleft in order to emphasize one of the parts.

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Multiple Choice

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It-cleft:

We use the it-cleft in order to emphasize one of the parts.

Which one is being emphasized?

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The blue part

2

The underlined green part

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It-cleft

We use the it-cleft in order to emphasize one of the parts.


The part of the sentence we want to minimize is put into a type of relative clause.

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What-cleft

We also use the what-cleft to add emphasis.

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Multiple Choice

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What-cleft:

We use the what-cleft to put the content we want to emphasize...

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at the beginning of the sentence

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... at the end of a sentence

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What-cleft

We use the what-cleft to put the content we want to emphasize at the end of a sentence.


The minimized content is put at the beginning of the sentence followed by ‘what’.

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'The thing (that)'

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'The person who'

An alternative for a what-cleft is using the thing (that) or the person who to put the content we want to emphasize at the end of a sentence and the minimized content at the beginning.

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Cleft Sentences

We sometimes use cleft sentences when we want to give emphasis on a particular part of the sentence, usually by splitting a sentence into two parts.

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