It-Cleft Sentences — The Two-Minute Window
Grammar: Inversion
Free ESL grammar exercise on it-cleft sentences themed around the two-minute window. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising inversion. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
It is not a transfer of information that defines a great presentation. It was the coherence gap, more than any weakness in data, that killed otherwise strong proposals.
Grammar: Inversion
- It-cleft — form
- It is the structure that determines success. — It is/was + X + that/who + rest of sentence
- It-cleft — what it
- It was the opening hook that lost the audience. — highlights the noun phrase after is/was
Sample items
- It ______ the opening hook that determines audience engagement.
- It ______ the lack of structure that caused the pitch to fail.
- It was Sheryl Sandberg ______ first brought the concept of radical candour to a mainstream business audience.
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