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Compound Adjectives Cleft Sentences

Language Focus. Compound Adjectives Cleft Sentences. Compound Adjectives. A compound adjective can be formed by many ways: Adjective + noun + -ed. e.g. absent-minded, cool-headed. Adverb + past participle. e.g. well-known, highly respected. Adjective/ adverb + present participle.

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Compound Adjectives Cleft Sentences

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  1. Language Focus Compound Adjectives Cleft Sentences

  2. Compound Adjectives • A compound adjective can be formed by many ways: • Adjective + noun + -ed. e.g. absent-minded, cool-headed. • Adverb + past participle. e.g. well-known, highly respected. • Adjective/ adverb + present participle. e.g. easy-going, good-looking.

  3. Practice: Combine the words from the boxes to create compound adjectives:

  4. Answer key:

  5. Cleft Sentences • Cleft sentences are used to emphasize particular words and expressions. • They are useful in writing ( because we cannot use intonation for emphasis in writen language), but they are also common in speech.

  6. Cleft Sentences • We can use these expressions to emphasize a place, time, or reason. E.g. Mary kept a pig IN THE GARDEN SHED. =>The garden shed was the place where Mary kept a pig. =>The place where Mary kept a pig was the garden shed.

  7. Cleft Sentences • The words to be emphasized are joined to the relative clause by is / was and an expression like the person who, or what. • We can put the word to be emphasized first or last in the sentence. E.g. MARY kept a pig in the garden shed. => Mary was the person who kept a pig in the garden shed. => The person who kept a pig in the garden shed was Mary. Mary kept A PIG in the garden shed => A pig was what Mary kept in the garden shed. =>What Mary kept in the garden shed was a pig.

  8. Cleft Sentences • We can use cleft sentence to emphasize a verb or an expression beginning with a verb. E.g: He screamed. => What he did was (to) scream.

  9. Cleft Sentences • Use to emphasize the whole sentence E.g. The car broke down. => What happened was (that) the car broke down.

  10. Cleft Sentences • Other structures • All ( that ), and expressions with thing, can be used in cleft sentences. Eg:All I want is home somewhere. The only thingI remember is a terrible pain in my head. • Time expressions can be emphasized with It was not until… and it was only when… E.g. It was not until I met you that I knew real happiness. It was only when I read her letter that I realized what was happening.

  11. Cleft Sentences Practice Using cleft sentences to emphasize the given cues. 1. A: What kind of TV programs do children like most? ( the animated cartoons) B: It is the animated cartoons that children like most. 2. A: Who asked the Mughal Emperor of India to build the Taj Mahal? (his dying wife) B: It was his dying wife that asked him to build the Taj Mahal.

  12. Thanks for your attention. Goodbye!!!!!!

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