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Emphasis and Nominalisation
Emphasis and Nominalisation
Ways to express emphasis in English:
Use of the Passive
Inversion
Annoyance (forever, always, etc.)
Cleft sentence: IT or WHAT
Use of 'Do' or 'Did'
Choose the correct option to complete the gaps in the following sentences.
1. __________________________ about the place is the weather.
a) That I don’t like
b) What I don’t like
c) The reason I don’t like
2. ______________________________ who lent him the money.
a) It was Mary
b) Mary it was
c) Mary
3. What we did is ____________________________ a letter to apologise.
a) wrote
b) writing
c) write
4. The reason why he left _______________________________ the embarrassment.
a) is avoiding
b) was avoid
c) was to avoid
5. _____________________________ that I realised she was leaving me.
a) It was when I read the email
b) When I read the email
c) Not until I read the email
6. __________________________ lent you the money, remember?
a) It’s me
b) It’s I
c) It’s me who
7. _____________________________ fame and money, among other things.
a) What I want is
b) What I want are
c) What I want it’s
8. _______________________________________ I told everything.
a) It was John the person
b) John it was the person
c) The person was John
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NOMINALISATION
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