GRAMMAR CLEFT SENTENCES Cleft sentences add emphasis to a noun, a person, a time, a phrase or a clause using the structure it is/was and followed by that/who or what is/was. In the following examples the underlined part of the sentence is being emphasized. It was an Australian, Albert Ellis, who made the discovery from which Nauru is still reeling. What strikes one first about the island is its size. What they did was to ship the phosphate to Australia.Note: in sentences referre
