Cleft Sentences — When a Woman Wakes Up Wide Awake at 4:30
Grammar: cleft sentences
Free ESL grammar exercise on cleft sentences themed around when a woman wakes up wide awake at 4:30. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on science, practising cleft sentences. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
What baffles her friends is her energy. It was in 2019 that a team found the mutation.
Grammar: Cleft Sentences
- It-cleft
- It was in 2019 that they found it. — focus time, place, person
- What-cleft
- What surprised me was the energy. — focus an idea
Sample items
- ______ was Bernard who woke at 4:30.
- What puzzles scientists ______ why carriers feel fine.
- It was the mutation ______ shortened her sleep.
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