Questão #18757 - Prefeitura de Planaltina - GO Instituto Access - Instituto Access - 2026 - Prefeitura de Planaltina - GO - Professor de Inglês - Inglês

Q18757 Instituto Access - 2026 - Prefeitura de Planaltina - GO - Professor de Inglês

Ano: 2026

Órgão: Prefeitura de Planaltina - GO

Banca: Instituto Access

Matéria: Inglês

Assunto: Análise sintática | Syntax Parsing

In advanced text production, the use of cleft sentences (it-clefts and wh-clefts) allows the writer to manipulate information structure for emphasis. Considering the morphosyntactic properties of it-clefts, select the alternative that correctly analyzes the focus in the sentence "It was the strong wind that caused the power outage".

A The use of the dummy subject "It" indicates that the sentence is impersonal and lacks a specific agent, shifting the focus entirely to the result "power outage".

B The cleft structure places the noun phrase "the strong wind" in the focus position, explicitly contrasting it with other possible causes (contrastive focus) while presupposing that something caused the outage.

C The structure emphasizes the verb "caused" by fronting the agent, making the sentence equivalent to a passive voice construction where the agent is unknown.

D The sentence is grammatically incorrect because it-clefts cannot be used with inanimate subjects like "wind"; a wh-cleft would be the only appropriate choice here.

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