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Adding emphasis: 'what' cleft sentences. Sometimes there's a particular part of a sentence that you really want to stress. It might be because it's new information or because it's the most interesting ...

IN the previous two columns we took up the use of the passive voice and of cleft sentences to draw attention to a particular aspect of the sentence that we want to emphasize. We saw that these ...

A BUSINESS chief has called for Scottish schools to spend more time teaching basic skills such as spelling and grammar. Iain McMillan, the director of CBI Scotland, also said the way exams such as ...