CLEFTS from THE MOP
For more intimacy, let’s call them “ clefties ” (“clefty” being the singular). Well, these clefties have no legs, have no tentacles, no tails, but, just like you, they have a skeleton. Let’s look through the microscope into a simple example: · It was Neil Armstrong who first set foot on the moon. the sentence in boxes: It was Neil Armstrong who first set foot on the moon is a cleft sentence, and its skeleton is: It Verb to Be Highlighted element who/that rest of the sentence And like you, they have secrets, which, like your own secrets, everybody gets to know: 1. The subject is always “it” (good news), even if you are going to talk, or write, about one individual or 159 people. I...