This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Sentence Structure > Special Clause Types > Cleft Sentences – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cleft Sentences Quiz 17 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "It was yesterday ..... I saw him." A) Who. B) What. C) That. D) Which. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That. 2. 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. 3. Choose the correct cleft sentence A) It was yesterday when I saw him. B) It is yesterday that I saw him. C) It yesterday was that I saw him. D) It was yesterday that I saw him. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It was yesterday that I saw him. 4. It is ..... I get emotional satisfaction. A) Collecting stamps that. B) From collecting stamps that. C) Collecting stamps from that. D) Collecting stamps that from. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From collecting stamps that. 5. ..... 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. 6. 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) They are going to the beach. C) What they are doing for their vacation is going to the beach. D) For their vacation, they are going to the beach. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What they are doing for their vacation is going to the beach. 7. Transform the following sentence into cleft form:'They built the house in 2020.' A) The house was built in 2020 by them. B) They built the house in 2021. C) It was in 2020 that they built the house. D) In 2020, the house was built by them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was in 2020 that they built the house. 8. I believe that I'm not wrong, ..... ? A) Am I. B) Are I. C) Aren't I. D) Am not I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Am I. 9. 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. 10. "Students need fair treatment." A) What students need are fair treatment. B) What students need is fair treatment. C) What students needed are fair treatment. D) What students need was fair treatment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What students need is fair treatment. 11. She always makes decision quickly. She is very ..... A) Self-reliant. B) Confident. C) Well-informed. D) Decisive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decisive. 12. I need a break. A) What I need is a break. B) What I need a break. C) What do I need is a break. D) What I am need is break. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) What I need is a break. 13. I really admire him, for his ..... A) Succeed. B) Success. C) Successful. D) Successfully. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Success. 14. 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. 15. ? 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. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. The only dream in my life is to afford a ..... little house for my family A) Complicated. B) Modest. C) Horrible. D) Large. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modest. 19. 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. 20. Choose the sentence that correctly emphasizes the time. A) What takes place in March is the festival. B) It is in March that the festival takes place. C) When the festival takes place is in March. D) The festival is when it takes place in March. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is in March that the festival takes place. 21. Choose word whose stress pattern is different from the others' A) Appriciate. B) Tradition. C) Album. D) Success. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Album. 22. Which of the following best describes an action cleft? A) Emphasizes a person. B) Emphasizes a time. C) Emphasizes an action. D) Emphasizes a place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emphasizes an action. 23. Which of the following is a correct cleft sentence? A) What I didn't like is the weather. B) The weather is what I didn't like. C) It was the weather that I didn't like. D) The weather that I didn't like is it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was the weather that I didn't like. 24. Feel, felt, ..... A) Feeled. B) Felted. C) Felt. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Felt. 25. Hardly ..... asleep when the phone woke him up. A) The doctor fell. B) The doctor had fallen. C) Did the doctor fall. D) Had the doctor fallen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had the doctor fallen. ← 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