8 - Grammar - Emphasis - cleft sentences and inversion
Exercise
3
Rewrite the sentences using the structures from the GRAMMAR FOCUS and the words in capitals.
Solution
- What happened was (that) Will and Emma had an argument.
- What it was that Will (not Emma) started talking about was climate change.
- What Will did was tell Emma how strongly he felt.
- What Emma suggested was that you couldn't blame humans at all.
- What Will couldn't believe was Emma's views on scientists.
- What Will had never heard were such ridiculous accusations.