Pseudo-Cleft and Wh-Cleft

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Examples

• What surprised me was her silence.

Key rules

• Form: What + clause + be + focus
• What I need is a rest
• Reverse: A rest is what I need
• Verb after be can be an infinitive: What I want is to sleep
• Use all, the thing, the place

Common mistakes

• What I need are a rest → What I need is a rest
• What he did was to left → What he did was leave