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Car Stolen Yesterday Word Order Choose Sentence Cleft

Task Choose the sentence with the right word order
Answer 3
a Yesterday it was his car that stolen.
b That stolen car was his yesterday.
c It was his car that was stolen yesterday.
d It was that his car stolen yesterday.
comment Cleft sentences with 'it' are formed in this way: it + to be + object + that. We use this structure to focus on the information that we put in the first place. Here: it's important to say 'it was his car' - not someone else's one.
topic word order
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