Conciseness is a major attribute of a good sentence. Every teacher stresses the need to construct concise and sharp clauses or sentences. The principle demands you deploy as fewer words as possible to ...

Adding emphasis: 'what' cleft sentences. Sometimes there's a particular part of a sentence that you really want to stress. It might be because it's new information or because it's the most interesting ...

Sometimes we want to make it clear which part of a sentence is the most important to us. We can do this by changing the sentence structure and using 'what' in something called 'cleft sentences'. They ...

THERE are times when we just feel that even the passive voice falls short of giving us the desired emphasis for what we want to say. That's when we take recourse to a peculiar grammar device that we ...

FOR those times when even the passive voice falls short of giving us the desired emphasis for a statement, the English language allows recourse to a construction known as the cleft sentence, which ...

What is a cleft sentence and how do we use it? Cleft sentences are used to help us focus on a particular part of the sentence and to emphasise what we want to say by introducing it or building up to ...