Cleft sentences — The Dish on Taste of Dublin
Grammar: Cleft sentences — full range
Free ESL grammar exercise on cleft sentences themed around the dish on taste of dublin. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on food, practising cleft sentences — full range. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
For O'Laoire, what the festival ultimately provides is a rare opportunity for smaller restaurants to reach thousands of people.
Grammar: Cleft Sentences
- It-cleft
- Use It is/was + X + that/who to emphasise a subject or object. It was the mango salsa that made the dish.
- Wh-cleft
- Use What + clause + is/was to emphasise a predicate. What the festival does is bring restaurants together in one place.
Sample items
- The Saturday afternoon crowd was ______ that most food vendors ran out of stock early.
- ______ the festival provides is a chance to sample fifteen restaurants in a single weekend.
- It was the Korean fried chicken ______ drew the longest queues on opening night.
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