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Cleft Sentences What and It clauses

Cleft Sentences What and It clauses . Advanced Course The Warehouse Madrid. Cleft Sentences. Divide a message into two parts , using what or it clauses They can focus attention on new, more important or contradictory information.

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Cleft Sentences What and It clauses

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  1. Cleft SentencesWhat and It clauses Advanced Course The Warehouse Madrid

  2. Cleft Sentences • Divide a message into two parts, using what or itclauses • They can focus attention on new, more important or contradictory information. • I can get a bit stressed by work. What I do if I get stressed is talk to my friends. (new information) • I get on well with my parents. However, it’s my friends that I talk to if I have a problem. (contradiction)

  3. We’ll have a drink and talk afterwards. What we talk about isn’t deep and meaningful though. • The what clause is immediately followed by known information. We know that they talk because of the speaker’s previous sentence. • The new information, that their conversation isn’t deep and meaningful, is in the second clause. • We join the two clauses in this type of cleft sentence with be.

  4. To focus on an action we can use • what + subject + do +be (+ subject) + infinitive clause. • What Simon does is pretend he hasn’t heard me. • To focus on a whole sentence, we can use • what happens + be + (+subject) + clause. • What happens is we always end up having a row.

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