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An English grammar exercise on cleft sentences to try out.

A cleft sentence changes the emphasis in a sentence. We’d like a new house.(What) Example 1 What we’d like is a new house. This defines the wish, action or decision (among other options) which is singled out as the best or principal course of action. or Example 2 A new house is what we’d like.…

Changing the emphasis of a sentence