Clefts & Inversion — One Night That Changed Everything
Grammar: Cleft sentences and inversion for emphasis
Free ESL grammar exercise on clefts & inversion themed around one night that changed everything. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on relationships, practising cleft sentences and inversion for emphasis. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
It was Marley who persuaded them both to attend the One Love Peace Concert, and it was Marley who coaxed them onto the stage. What the concert did achieve, arguably, was to demonstrate what Marley had always believed.
Grammar
- It-cleft
- Isolates one element for emphasis. It was the gang leaders who initiated the truce. Common in spoken and written emphasis.
- Wh-cleft
- Fronts a noun clause as subject. What Marley believed was that music could start conversations. Formal and analytical register.
Sample items
- It was the audience ______ witnessed the historic handshake.
- ______ the concert demonstrated was that music could open political dialogue.
- Rarely ______ a single concert attracted so much global attention.
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