Cleft Sentences.ppt - learn how to form Cleft sentences easily.

A ppt to describe various types of Cleft Sentences.

1. Martha Cabrera - Ferez

2. Cleft sentences are special constructions
which are used to give emphasis to a
particular part of the sentence.
These type of sentences are introduced by
a clause beginning with What or by It is/It
was
They are particularly useful when writing
where we cannot use intonation for
purposes of focus or emphasis, but they are
also frequently used in speech.

3. Structure:
What + focus + to be
Ex: I enjoyed the family most in my trip to
Phoenix.
What I enjoyed most in my trip to Phoenix
was my family.
Ex: We now need actions rather than
words.
What we now need are actions rather
than words.

4. You can also start a sentence with
The thing….
Ex: I enjoyed my family most in my trip to
Phoenix.
What I enjoyed most in my trip to Phoenix
was my family.
The thing that I enjoyed most in my trip to
Phoenix was my family.

5. It is sometimes very effective to use ALL
instead of WHAT in a cleft structure if you
want to focus on one particular thing
and nothing else.
Ex: I want to finish my MA.
All I want to do is to finish my MA.
Ex: I want to have some fun.
All I want to do is have some fun.

6. This structure joins the words that we want
to focus on to the relative clause with that,
who, or when
This construction enables us to focus on
different aspects of the information, which
may be important at the time.
Ex: My brother won a BMW in the Sorteo
Tec
It was my brother who won the BMW in the
Sorteo Tec.
It was a BMW that my brother won in the
S…

7. He’s always late. It really annoys me.
What..
The waiter’s attitude made things worse.
It…
I love Autumn because of the color of the
leaves. The thing…
Her terrible accent annoys me most. What..
I was most unhappy with the service. The
thing…

8. What really annoys me is that he’s
always late.
It was the waiter’s attitude that made
things worse.
The thing I love about Autumn is the
color of the leaves.
What annoys me most is her terrible
accent.
The thing I was most unhappy with was
the service.

9. never/understand/What/I/enough/don’t/
time/is why/I/have/free
need/stress-free/What/is/in life/we
all/a/most/job
most/is/thing/studying/The/the
tests/hate/I/English/about
enjoy/playing/What/is/I/most/Tennis
like most/is
their/person/The/humor/thing/sense of/I/in a

10. What I don’t understand is why I never
have enough free time.
What we all most need in life is a stress-
free job.
The thing I hate most about studying
English is the tests.
What I enjoy most is playing tennis.
The thing I like most in a person is their
sense of humor.

11. He wanted money, not love. It …
Ben stole the money, not Amy. It…
Jan didn’t break that dish, you did. It…
I only understood how serious it was
when he called. It…
He met his wife in Mexico City. It…
Stacey spends all her time on the
computer, not the telephone. It…

12. It was money that (what) he wanted, not
love.
It was Ben that stole the money, not Amy.
It was you that broke that cup, not Jan.
It was only when he called that I
understood how serious it was.
It was in Mexico City, that he met his wife.
It is the computer that Stacey spends all
her time on, not the telephone.