Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3 - Things are different there for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Look at audio script 7 on page 199 to see the actual sentences that the examples in the box are based on. Answer the questions.

Answer

1 - We change the order of the sentence, fronting nouns or phrases we wish to emphasise or focus on:

  • It + conjugated form of to be + X + subordinate clause
  • What + subordinate clause + conjugated form of to be + X
  • All + subordinate clause + conjugated form + X


  • 2 - It’s ... / what ... / all they did ... / the thing that ...
  • 3 - is / was (verb to be) (that) / (all they) did / is the fact that
  • 4 - In order to focus on how we feel / the cause / the action, etc. ...