Ellipsis and Cleft Sentences

Guidance will be given to enable you to (a) clearly see the linguistic structures of the following expressions; and (b) readily produce expressions with such structures.
To ensure your success, adequate examples will be further provided with clear explanation.

Ellipsis

• • I didn't touch the TV set, but Percy might have Δ .
  • He will come later, if Δ at all.
  • I know we have not yet set the record straight, but we will Δ .
  • Somebody ought to help. Shall I ask Peter to Δ?
  • I won't disturb you again unless I have to Δ .
  • She borrowed my pen, although I asked her not to Δ.
  • That letter was the last Δ I ever received from her.
  • My own camera, like Peter's Δ, is Japanese.
  • I'll do what I can Δ .

Cleft sentences

• • It was in Paris that I first met her.
  • It is her smile that is strikingly impressive.
  • It is a doctor that he has eventually become.
  • It was Tacloban that was most seriously devastated by super typhoon Haiyan (海燕).
  • It's this watch I said I would let you have [i.e. not that watch]
  • It was in September that I first noticed it.
  • It was today (22 November) 50 years ago that US President John F Kennedy was assassinated.