Subject, Object, and Prepositional Phrase

Worksheet Description

This worksheet is designed to educate students on the formation and usage of cleft sentences in English. It explains that cleft sentences are used to place emphasis on a specific part of a sentence, and this is achieved by rearranging the sentence structure. The worksheet provides an example sentence, “Elijah spends all his time after school playing Minecraft in his room,” and then shows how this sentence can be transformed to emphasize different elements such as the subject, object, adverbial, and prepositional phrase.

The worksheet aims to teach students how to manipulate the structure of sentences to highlight different components, thereby changing the focus of the sentence. By completing the exercise, students will learn to create sentences that emphasize the subject, object, adverbial element, or prepositional phrase, depending on their communicative intent. This practice can enhance their writing skills by allowing them to present information in a way that guides the reader’s attention to what they deem most important. The worksheet also helps students understand the flexibility of English sentence construction and the effects of syntactic emphasis.