This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Sentence Structure > Special Clause Types > Cleft Sentences – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cleft Sentences Quiz 14 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Pick the only one that truly is a cleft sentence. A) What is possible for me is possible for you. B) What you want is not possible. C) What's in your head is possible. D) What is possible is what matters most to us. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What is possible is what matters most to us. 2. At no time ..... know the result of the recognition A) Will the public. B) The public will. C) The public. D) Does the public. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will the public. 3. According the the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, "emphatic" means: A) Attracting special attention. B) Pushing away somebody's attention. C) Involving, characterized by, or based on empathy. D) Lacking physical or mental energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attracting special attention. 4. "She needs understanding, not advice." Select the correct cleft sentence. A) It is understanding she needs, not advice. B) It was understanding that she needs, not advice. C) It is understanding that she needs, not advice. D) It was understanding which she needs, not advice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is understanding that she needs, not advice. 5. A ..... is a series of musical notes that is pleasant and easy to remember. A) Practice. B) Guitar. C) Tune. D) Musical instrument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tune. 6. What is the main purpose of using cleft sentences? A) To create complex sentences without emphasis. B) The main purpose of using cleft sentences is to emphasize a specific part of a sentence. C) To simplify sentences for better understanding. D) To provide a complete sentence structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The main purpose of using cleft sentences is to emphasize a specific part of a sentence. 7. It ..... the food in Hanoi that I enjoyed the most. A) Be. B) Is. C) Were. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was. 8. -You need to rest for a while. A) What you need is rest for a while. B) Rest for a while is what you need to do. C) What you need is to rest for a while. D) What you need to do is to rest for a while. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What you need is to rest for a while. 9. Spot the mistake:It was them who visited us. A) Correct. B) Wrong. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wrong. 10. Choose the best it-cleft sentence to emphasize "the cake" in the sentence "My mother baked the cake." A) My mother baked it the cake. B) The cake was baked by my mother. C) My mother baked the cake, it was delicious. D) It was the cake that my mother baked. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It was the cake that my mother baked. 11. "It was yesterday ..... I saw him." A) What. B) Which. C) That. D) Who. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That. 12. Which relative pronoun can be used after a noun phrase? A) That. B) All of the above. C) Which. D) Who. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All of the above. 13. Choose the correct cleft sentence A) It yesterday was that I saw him. B) It was yesterday when I saw him. C) It was yesterday that I saw him. D) It is yesterday that I saw him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was yesterday that I saw him. 14. It is ..... I get emotional satisfaction. A) Collecting stamps that. B) Collecting stamps from that. C) From collecting stamps that. D) Collecting stamps that from. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) From collecting stamps that. 15. ..... was at school that I met my best friend. A) What. B) It. C) Until. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It. 16. Choose the best wh-cleft sentence to emphasize "going to the beach" in the sentence "They are going to the beach for their vacation." A) Going to the beach is what they are doing for their vacation. B) For their vacation, they are going to the beach. C) They are going to the beach. D) What they are doing for their vacation is going to the beach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What they are doing for their vacation is going to the beach. 17. Transform the following sentence into cleft form:'They built the house in 2020.' A) They built the house in 2021. B) In 2020, the house was built by them. C) It was in 2020 that they built the house. D) The house was built in 2020 by them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was in 2020 that they built the house. 18. I believe that I'm not wrong, ..... ? A) Are I. B) Am not I. C) Aren't I. D) Am I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Am I. 19. What Tom decided was ..... and study abroad for a year. A) To go. B) Going. C) Go. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To go. 20. "Students need fair treatment." A) What students need was fair treatment. B) What students needed are fair treatment. C) What students need are fair treatment. D) What students need is fair treatment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What students need is fair treatment. 21. She always makes decision quickly. She is very ..... A) Well-informed. B) Self-reliant. C) Confident. D) Decisive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decisive. 22. I really admire him, for his ..... A) Successful. B) Success. C) Succeed. D) Successfully. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Success. 23. Transform the following sentence into cleft form:'She loves chocolate.' A) She loves candy. B) It is chocolate that she loves. C) It is she who loves chocolate. D) Chocolate loves her. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is chocolate that she loves. 24. ? was not until May that I decided I wanted to take a gap year. A) It. B) What. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It. 25. It's amazing ..... quickly technology is advancing these days. A) Where. B) What. C) How. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How. 26. Choose the correct option for the gap: ..... that can really help is having regular team meetings. A) The way. B) The thing. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The thing. 27. The only dream in my life is to afford a ..... little house for my family A) Horrible. B) Large. C) Modest. D) Complicated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modest. 28. Transform the following sentence into cleft form:'He solved the problem quickly.' A) It was he who solved the problem quickly. B) The problem was solved quickly by him. C) He quickly solved the problem. D) It was she who solved the problem quickly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was he who solved the problem quickly. 29. Choose the sentence that correctly emphasizes the time. A) It is in March that the festival takes place. B) When the festival takes place is in March. C) What takes place in March is the festival. D) The festival is when it takes place in March. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is in March that the festival takes place. 30. Choose word whose stress pattern is different from the others' A) Appriciate. B) Tradition. C) Album. D) Success. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Album. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesSentence Structure QuizzesGrammar QuizzesCleft Sentences Quiz 1Cleft Sentences Quiz 2Cleft Sentences Quiz 3Cleft Sentences Quiz 4Cleft Sentences Quiz 5Cleft Sentences Quiz 6Cleft Sentences Quiz 7Cleft Sentences Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books