UNIT 13: HOBBIES - LAGUAGE FOCUS - CLEFT SENTENCES

GRAMMARcleft sentenceS to help us focus on a particular part of the sentence and to emphasise what we want to say... Chuong is the monitor of our class It is Chuong who is the monitor of

E.Language Focus

HOBBIES

II GRAMMAR

cleft sentenceS

to help us focus on a particular part of the sentence and to emphasise what we want to say

1 Subject focus

a Example

a Example:

Who is the monitor of our class?

Chuong is the monitor of our class

It is Chuong who is the monitor of our class

My horse won the race yesterday

It was my horse that won the race yesterday

b Form

b Form:

It + is was noun/pronoun + who that +V + O

2 Object focus

a Example:

What subject did you learn in the last period?

It was

We learnt physics in the last period

She often visits her grandmother.

It is her grandmother whom she often visits.

b Form

b Form:

It + is

was + noun/pronoun + whom that S + v + Adv.p

III PRACTICE

1.Exercise 1: Rewrite the following sentences,

focusing on the underlined parts.

1.Nam’s father got angry with him

 It was Nam’s father who got angry with him

2 We are learning English

 It is English that we are learning

3 Lan sent her friend the postcard

 It was Lan’s friend whom Lan sent the postcard

4 I asked the taxi driver to carry the luggage

 It was the taxi driver whom I asked to carry the luggage for me

2 Exercise 2:Choose the sentence that can best replace the sentences provided.

1 Your carelessness caused the accident.

C It is your carelessness that caused the accident

D It was your carelessness that caused the accident

2 Hung helped me a lot with my study last semester.

C It is Hung who helped me a lot with my study last semester

D It is Hung that helped me a lot with my study last semester

3 The headmaster gave Tam a bicycle as a scholarship.

• Do the all exercises in the textbook

• Make 2 cleft sentences for each kind