Cleft sentence

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E.Language Focus
Unit 13:
HOBBIES
II. GRAMMAR
cleft sentences
to help us focus on a particular part of the sentence
and to emphasise what we want to say
1. Subject focus
a. Example:
Who is the monitor of our class?
1, Chuong is the monitor of our class
 It is Chuong who is the monitor of our class.
s
v
o
2, My horse won the race yesterday
s
v
o
adv
 It was my horse that won the race yesterday
b. Form:
It +
is
was
+noun/phrase +
who
that
+V
+ O
2. Object focus
a. Example:
What subject did you learn in the last period?
physics that we learnt in the last period.
 It was
1, We learnt physics in the last period
s
v
o
Prep.P
2, She often visits her grandmother.
s
Adv
v
o
 It is her grandmother whom she often visits.
b. Form:
It +
is
was
+ noun/phrase +
whom
that
S +
+ (Adv.p)
v
III. PRACTICE
Exercise 1: Rewrite the following sentences,
focusing on the underlined parts.
1.Nam’s father got angry with him
2. We are learning English.
3. Lan sent her friend the postcard.
4. I asked the taxi driver to carry my luggage .
 It was Nam’s father who got angry with him.
 It was the taxi driver whom I asked to carry my luggage.
 It was Lan’s friend whom Lan sent the postcard.
 It is English that we are learning.
Exercise 1: Identify the underlined word or phrase –
A, B, C or D – that must be changed correctly .
A
C
D
A
B
B
B
C
C
D
D
A
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Do the all exercises in the textbook
Make 2 cleft sentences for each kind
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