Cleft Sentences örnek soruları
Soru 1
Tülay: I heard Murat designed the new company logo.
Ben: ---- Murat only chose the colours.
Tülay: Oh, then I'll go and congratulate Sena.
- A)Actually, it was the colours that Sena chose.
- B)Actually, it was Sena who designed it.
- C)Yes, it was Murat who designed it.
- D)Yes, all Sena did was choose the colours.
- E)Actually, what Murat designed was the logo.
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Doğru cevap: B
Ben yanlış bilgiyi it-cleft ile düzeltiyor: "Actually, it was Sena who designed it."; Tülay da bu yüzden Sena'yı tebrik etmeye gidiyor. "it was the colours that Sena chose" yanlıştır, çünkü renkleri Murat seçmiş.
Soru 2
Someone says: "It isn't that I don't trust you. It's just that I've been let down before."
What does the speaker mean?
- A)The speaker's caution comes from past experience, not from doubts about the listener.
- B)The speaker believes the listener has been let down before.
- C)The speaker doesn't trust the listener because of something the listener did.
- D)The speaker has never been disappointed by anyone before.
- E)The speaker is asking the listener to forgive a past mistake.
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Doğru cevap: A
"It isn't that ...; it's just that ..." yapısı ilk nedeni reddedip asıl nedeni verir: konuşmacının temkini dinleyiciye güvensizlikten değil, geçmişte hayal kırıklığına uğramasından kaynaklanıyor. "because of something the listener did" reddedilen nedenin ta kendisidir.
Soru 3
It's not that I don't like your idea; ____ we simply can't afford it this year.
- A)that's
- B)it's that
- C)it's what
- D)it's because of
- E)it is which
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Doğru cevap: B
"It's not that ...; it's that ..." kalıbı yanlış bir nedeni düzeltip gerçek nedeni vurgular. "it's because of" isim ister, ardından tam cümle gelemez; "that's" de "that" bağlacının yerini tutmaz.
Soru 4
Everyone thinks Nermin closed her café because of the high rent, but she actually closed it because she wanted to retire. Which sentence best expresses what Nermin would say?
- A)What made me close the café was the high rent.
- B)It wasn't the rent that made me close the café; it was the wish to retire.
- C)The reason I retired was that the rent was too high.
- D)All I wanted was to keep the café open despite the rent.
- E)It was the rent, not my retirement, that made me close the café.
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Doğru cevap: B
Nermin yaygın inancı düzeltip gerçek nedeni vurgulamalı: "It wasn't the rent that made me close the café; it was the wish to retire." "It was the rent, not my retirement, ..." tam tersini söyler.
Soru 5
A quiet room and a decent Wi-Fi connection: that's ____ I need to finish this report.
- A)how
- B)what
- C)which
- D)who
- E)that
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Doğru cevap: B
Ters wh-cleft (reverse cleft): "That's what I need" = ihtiyacım olan şey bu. "That's which I need" yanlıştır; "which" bu yapıda "what" yerine kullanılmaz.
Soru 6
The first thing ____ when I get home from work is take off my shoes.
- A)which do I
- B)what I do
- C)that I do it
- D)I do it
- E)I do
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Doğru cevap: E
"The first thing (that) I do ... is ..." yapısında "thing" kendisi ismi tanımlar; ayrıca "what" ya da "it" eklenmez. "what I do" ismin ardından gereksiz ikinci bir ilgi zamiri getirir.
Soru 7
Which sentence is grammatically correct?
- A)It is the manager who decide the holiday schedule.
- B)What we need is more time to test the software.
- C)What we need are more time to test the software.
- D)It was the noise what kept me awake all night.
- E)That I liked most was the view from the balcony.
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Doğru cevap: B
"What we need is more time…" doğru: "time" sayılamaz olduğundan fiil tekildir. "who decide" özne (the manager) ile uyuşmaz; wh-cleft "That" ile değil "What" ile başlar; it-cleft'te "what" değil "that/which/who" gelir.
Soru 8
'The traffic didn't make us late for the meeting; the faulty satnav did.'
Which sentence expresses the same idea?
- A)What made us late for the meeting was the traffic, not the faulty satnav.
- B)Neither the traffic nor the faulty satnav made us late for the meeting.
- C)It was the faulty satnav, not the traffic, that made us late for the meeting.
- D)It was both the traffic and the faulty satnav that made us late for the meeting.
- E)It wasn't the faulty satnav that made us late for the meeting, but the traffic.
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Doğru cevap: C
Asıl neden bozuk navigasyon; trafik değil. It-cleft bunu "It was the faulty satnav, not the traffic, that ..." ile vurgular. "What made us late ... was the traffic" anlamı tersine çevirir.
Soru 9
It was in 2019 ____ an office in Izmir.
- A)which the company first opened
- B)what the company first opened
- C)that the company first opened
- D)when did the company first open
- E)that first opened the company
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Doğru cevap: C
Zaman vurgulanınca da "It was + zaman + that…" kullanılır: "It was in 2019 that the company first opened…". "which" ve "what" bu yapıda kullanılmaz; that'ten sonra soru düzeni (did the company) de gelmez.
Soru 10
Ceren: The new café downstairs is always packed. Is it the coffee?
Jake: Partly, but ____ They bake everything fresh every morning.
Ceren: I'll have to try them, then.
- A)what really brings people in is the pastries.
- B)what really brings people in is the free Wi-Fi.
- C)what really keeps people away is the pastries.
- D)it's the pastries what really bring people in.
- E)what really brings people in it is the pastries.
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Doğru cevap: A
Jake asıl çekiciliği wh-cleft ile vurguluyor: what really brings people in is the pastries; "They bake everything fresh" de hamur işlerini anlatıyor. "free Wi-Fi" yapıca doğru ama taze pişirmeyle bağlantılı değil.