Cleft Sentences — The Voice That Refused to Disappear
Grammar: Cleft sentences — full range
Free ESL grammar exercise on cleft sentences themed around the voice that refused to disappear. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on society, practising cleft sentences — full range. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
It was not the record sales that made Amy Winehouse extraordinary — it was the sensation that she was singing directly to them. What the album achieved was a near-total demolition of the boundary between vintage R&B and contemporary pop.
Grammar: Cleft Sentences
- It-cleft — form
- It + be + focused element + relative clause. It was Mark Ronson who produced the album. Stresses who or what.
- Wh-cleft — form
- What/where/why + clause + be + focus. What she created was a new kind of British soul. Fronts the new information.
Sample items
- ______ was the live instrumentation... gave the album its vintage feel.
- ______ surprised critics most was the album's commercial success.
- It was Lauryn Hill ______ first set the five-Grammy record in a single night.
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