This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Sentence Structure > Special Clause Types > Cleft Sentences – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cleft Sentences Quiz 5 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Arrange the words to make a cleft sentence:It / was / the cat / that / knocked / over / the vase. A) The cat was it that knocked over the vase. B) The vase was knocked over by the cat that it was. C) It was knocked over the vase that the cat. D) It was the cat that knocked over the vase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It was the cat that knocked over the vase. 2. ..... my parents gave me the teddy bear. A) It was on my birthday when. B) It was my birthday on that. C) It was my birthday who. D) It was on my birthday that. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It was on my birthday that. 3. Arrange the words to make a cleft sentence:The person / who / won / the race / was / my brother. A) The person was my brother who won the race. B) The person was won by my brother who the race. C) The person was won the race by my brother who. D) My brother was the person who won the race. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) My brother was the person who won the race. 4. Start-up founders need a good communication skills. (It) A) It's a communication skills that start.up founders need. B) It's a good communication skills that start.up founders need. C) It's a founders need that a good communication skills. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It's a good communication skills that start.up founders need. 5. Getting through the summer without getting injured was the only thing the athlete wanted. A) At no time did the athlete wanted to get through the summer without getting injured. B) All that the athlete wanted was getting through the summer without getting injured. C) Nothing that the athlete wanted more was getting through the summer without getting injured. D) No sooner had the athlete wanted to get through the summer than she got injured. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All that the athlete wanted was getting through the summer without getting injured. 6. The other ..... I enjoy is being with my friends in the open air. A) What. B) Thing. C) That. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thing. 7. ..... that lent him the money. A) Mary. B) It was Mary. C) Mary it was. D) It is Mary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was Mary. 8. Not until ..... her did I realise how beautiful she was. A) Did I see. B) Saw I. C) I saw. D) Was I saw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I saw. 9. ..... when it comes to defining what true equality means in society. A) The popular belief. B) We are poles apart. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We are poles apart. 10. The word "cleft" means partially united. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. There are lots of facilities where we go camping. A) Who go camping where there are lots of facilities are we. B) The things there are where we go camping are lots of facilities. C) The place where we go camping has lots of facilities. D) What are there lots of facilities in where we go camping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The place where we go camping has lots of facilities. 12. Dave really wants to try surfing. A) It's Dave who wants to try surfing. B) Who Dave wants to try surfing. C) Dave who wants to try surfing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It's Dave who wants to try surfing. 13. ..... I failed the test was I didn't study. A) The reason why. B) The thing. C) Something. D) One thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reason why. 14. It was the girls ..... won the top science prize yesterday. A) When. B) It. C) Who. D) What. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Who. 15. Construct a cleft sentence using the word 'phone'. A) The phone is what I need right now. B) What I need right now is the phone. C) It is the phone that I need right now. D) The phone that I need right now. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What I need right now is the phone. 16. People seeing me fall was the thing ..... most embarrassed me! A) That. B) What. C) Of. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That. 17. When did the event occur in the cleft sentence: "It was last night that the power went out" ? A) Last night. B) Power. C) Went. D) Out. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Last night. 18. ..... that the data were misinterpreted during the initial analysis. A) I have reason to believe. B) As a matter of opinion. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I have reason to believe. 19. Poor communication causes problems. (Wh-) A) It causes problems that poor communication. B) What causes poor communication is problems. C) What causes problems is poor communication. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What causes problems is poor communication. 20. You will grow those vegetables faster if you give fertilizers to them. A) Those vegetables which grow faster if you give fertilzers. B) If you give fertilizers you will grow those vegetables faster. C) To grow those vegetables was to give fertilizers to them. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To grow those vegetables was to give fertilizers to them. 21. What does she need now according to the cleft sentence: "What she needs now is a good vacation" ? A) Needs. B) Now. C) Good. D) Vacation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vacation. 22. I have trouble waking up early for work. A) What I have trouble doing is waking up early for work. B) What I waking up early for work is I have trouble doing it. C) Early for work is what I trouble waking up. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) What I have trouble doing is waking up early for work. 23. I love my father most. A) It is my father which I love most. B) It was my father that I love most. C) It is my father that I love most. D) It was my father whom I love most. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is my father that I love most. 24. Arrange the words to make a cleft sentence:What / she / needs / is / a vacation. A) She is what needs a vacation. B) Is what she needs a vacation. C) What needs she is a vacation. D) What she needs is a vacation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What she needs is a vacation. 25. ..... my parents gave me the fish tank.A. It was on my birthday whenB. It was my birthday on thatC. It was my birthday thatD. It was on my birthday that A) A. B) B. C) C. D) D. 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