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. It was my brother and his friends who were involved in the brawl