-Look at these sentences from the previous article and answer questions 1 and 2:

1- What is the effect of using the words in bold above? Do they:

a) Express certainty?
b) Emphasize the idea that follows?
c) Contrast the idea in the sentence?

2- What verb joins the first and second causes in all these sentences?

Was

-Another way of making a cleft sentence is to use it is or it was at the beginning of the sentence.
Find one sentence in the article that does this and copy it. What word is used to join the two
clauses in this sentence?

It was also the absence of many words he expected to see that surprised Michalko.

The.

-Use these words to write cleft sentence with What, One thing, or It.

2- I really need

 What I really need is a new laptop.

 One thing I really need is a new laptop.
 It is a new laptop something that I really need.

3- They were intrigued by

 What intrigued them was that there is an abandoned house next to school.
 One thing that intrigued them was an abandoned house next to school.
 It was the abandoned house next to school that intrigued them.

4- She was really worried about

 What worried she was about her grade in the exam.

 One thing that worried her was the grade in the exam.
 It was the grade in the exam that worried her.

5- We are so pleased about

 What pleased us was that we won the competition.

 One thing that pleased us was that we won the competition.
 It was the fact that we won the competition that pleased us.