Cleft Sentences — Seeing What Isn't There
Grammar: cleft sentences
Free ESL grammar exercise on cleft sentences themed around seeing what isn't there. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on psychology, practising cleft sentences. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
What surprised researchers was how similar imagining and seeing are in the brain.
Grammar: Cleft Sentences
- It-cleft
- It is the brain that predicts the world. — stresses the doer
- What-cleft
- What surprised him was the detail. — stresses the new fact
Sample items
- ______ is the brain that predicts the world.
- What surprised him ______ the detail.
- It was Kekulé ______ dreamed of a snake.
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