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Cleft sentences (zdania rozszczepione) to zdania, które pozwalają nam położyć nacisk na konkretne informacje.

Konstrukcje cleft sentences:

- It + was + rzeczownik/zaimek + that/who/which

- What + zdanie + was + rzeczownik/zdanie

- What + podmiot + did + was + bezokolicznik (z/bez to)

- What happened + was + (that) + zdanie

 

Odnosząc się do przeszłości używamy was/did.

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Przykładowe rozwiązanie:

It was my neighbour who decided to apply for a job as a tightrope walker because she needed a steady job.

What my neighbour did was apply for a job as a tightrope walker because she needed a steady job.

What happened was that my neighbour decided to apply for a job as a tightrope walker because she needed a steady job.

It was a job as a tightrope walker that my neighbour decided to apply to because she needed a steady job. 

What my neighbour decided to do was to apply for a job as a tightrope walker because she needed a steady job.