Cleft sentences - Exercises
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Cleft sentences
Exercise 189. Cleft and pseudo – cleft sentences
(Chalker, S. A Student’s English Grammar Workbook, Longman)
Complete the following using the information given to make cleft or pseudo-cleft sentences as indicated.
Examples: Drugs worry many governments. [the increase in drug-taking]
Cleft sentence: It’s THE INCREASE IN DRUG-TAKING THAT WORRIES MANY GOVERNMENTS.
Pseudo-cleft: What WORRIES MANY GOVERNMENTS IS THE INCREASE IN DRUG-TAKING.
What makes people experiment with drugs? (perhaps boredom, a longing for excitement)
Perhaps it’s................................................................................................................
Do we find drug-taking among all age-groups? (I think mainly among the young)
I think it’s...................................................................................................................
We need to make people realize that drug-taking is self-destructive.
What.............................................................................................................................
But some people think that all drugs should be legal.
What.............................................................................................................................
They say the glamour of doing something illegal attracts people.
They say it’s.................................................................................................................
Some governments have such tough laws about trafficking, I am surprised any people become ´couriers´.
What surprises....................................................................... when..............................
I suppose the hope of easy money tempts them.
I suppose it.....................................................................................................................
Many people don’t realize that ordinary drug-takers need big money to buy drugs with.
What...............................................................................................................................
The drug barons deliberately involve ´small people´.
What...............................................................................................................................
The Customs people are looking for travellers who behave suspiciously.
What................................................................................................................................
Often the small people, not the big people, get caught.
It’s often...........................................................................................................................
Most governments want to stop drugs coming into their countries.
What.................................................................................................................................
Village women
(Alexander, L. G. Longman Advanced Grammar)
THE WOMEN play a great part in village
S V O A
politics. They do a lot of the organizing and if their men hold trade-union offices or party positions, they will do all the writing for them. The women are political because it is they who spend the wages. A man will take his wage and think it fair enough but his wife will have a weekly experience of how inadequate it is. She soon comes to understand that it is this constant just-too-little money which must always keep the family static. The Women’s Institute has educated the village women. Women like organizations. They like committees for this and sub-committees for that. They don’t care what they say to each other when they are on a committee and when they come to a unanimous resolution about something – it has to be done! The women never lost their independence during the bad days as the men did. The men were beaten because the farms took every ounce of their physical strength and, as they had no great mental strength because of lack of education, they were left with nothing. Their physical strength was their pride and as soon as it was gone they became timid. It was the farm versus their bodies, and the farm always won. The farms used to swallow up men as they swallowed up muck and the men realized this quite early on in their lives. Things are different now, of course, but there is a legacy of beaten men in the Suffolk villages. Some of these men are surprisingly young. You don’t find women in this condition, no matter how hard their lives have been.