1. Read 2 pairs of sentences and complete the rules.

Usual sentences. Cleft sentences.

Police didn’t initially realise that the man in
front of them was John Darwin.
The alarm was raised only when he failed to
arrive at work for a night shift.
He spent the next few years hiding inside the
house and rarely leaving.
A colleague of Anne Darwin’s eventually put
the pieces of the puzzle together.
What police didn’t initially realise was that the
man in front of them was in fact John Darwin.
It was only when he failed to arrive at work for
a night shift that evening that the alarm was
raised.
What he did then was spend the next few years
hiding inside the house and rarely leaving.
It was a colleague of Anne Darwin’s who
eventually put the pieces of the puzzle together

1. Is there any difference between the pairs of sentences?

2. Which sentence gives more emphasis?
3. Cleft sentences are used in _________________ and ________________English, but they
are more common in __________________ English.
4. Cleft sentences help us to focus on a______________________ to add emphasis to what we
want to say.
5. Cleft sentences are divided into _____________ clauses.
6. There are ______________ most common types of cleft sentences: ____________sentence
patterns and ___________ sentence patterns.
7. In the second type of cleft sentence, the emphasis is usually at the _________ of the
sentence.
8. The first type of cleft sentences (_____________________________) has the following
structure.
It +__________ +subject\object +__________\__________relative clause
9. The second type of cleft sentences (___________________________) has the following
structure.
What clause + __________ +emphasized word or phrase.
10. The cleft sentences of this type begin with WH words such as
________________________________________________