Cleft sentences & inversion — The Gig Economy's Hidden Ledger
Grammar: Cleft sentences and inversion for emphasis
Free ESL grammar exercise on cleft sentences & inversion themed around the gig economy's hidden ledger. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on work, 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 is not the algorithm that drives you mad — it is the waiting. Not since the industrial revolution has the labour market reorganised so rapidly. What the headline number obscures is a second ledger. Only by disaggregating the data does the real story emerge.
Grammar
- It is … that (cleft)
- Moves emphasis to the subject. It is the waiting that drives you mad. — not the work itself.
- What … is (cleft)
- Foregrounds what is new or surprising. What the number hides is a second ledger. — the hidden truth.
Sample items
- ______ the worker, not the platform, that absorbs the cost of a slow week.
- ______ the data hides is a cohort of primary-income workers earning below minimum wage.
- Not since the 1920s ______ so many workers classified as independent contractors.
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