The Little Mermaid C2 Grammar Odyssey

Choose the cleft sentence that emphasizes the main focus correctly:

• It is Ariel who wants to explore the human world.
• Ariel is who wants to explore the human world.
• It is exploring the human world Ariel wants.
• Ariel does want to explore the human world, indeed she does.

Explanation

In a cleft sentence, we use It + be + focus + who/that to emphasize a specific element: It is Ariel who…