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Answer — Exercise 8.5 - Emphasis - cleft sentences and inversion

Grammar Focus·Focus 4 - Student's Book

Question

Rewrite the sentences to add emphasis.

Answer

  1. It was Tess who promised to help tidy up the garden.
  2. All we are doing is handing out leaflets in protest.
  3. Never has she been so disappointed by the results.
  4. Under no circumstances are you going out in that raging storm.
  5. What I want to know is who started the violence.
  6. Rarely do we see such high temperatures at this time of year.
  7. Hardly had they got back to the flat when they heard the news.
  8. What I don't believe is telling lies.
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More exercises in Grammar Focus

Ex. 0.1 - Present tenses - review
Ex. 0.2 - Past tenses - review
Ex. 0.3 - Conditionals - wish and if only
Ex. 0.4 - Modal verbs for speculation
Ex. 0.5 - Reported Speech
Ex. 0.6 - Articles
Ex. 0.7 - Comparative structures
Ex. 0.8 - The Passive
Ex. 1.2 - Present and past habits
Ex. 1.5 - Verb patterns
Ex. 2.2 - Past Perfect Simple and Continuous
Ex. 2.5 - Relative clauses
Ex. 3.2 Future forms
Ex. 3.5 - Quantifiers
Ex. 4.2 Question tags and reply questions
Ex. 4.5 - Present and past modal structures
Ex. 5.2 Reported speech
Ex. 5.5 - Reporting verbs
Ex. 6.2 - Conditional clauses - alternatives to if
Ex. 6.5 - Mixed conditionals
Ex. 7.2 - Advanced passive forms
Ex. 7.5 - Passive reporting structures
Ex. 8.2 - Unreal past and regrets