Estos ejercicios te permitirán consolidar las variaciones sintácticas avanzadas del inglés estudiadas en el curso: inversión enfática, frases escindidas (cleft sentences) y extraposición. Pon a prueba tu dominio de estas estructuras para lograr mayor precisión, ritmo y elegancia en tu escritura.
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Exercice 1 — Inversión enfática: completa la estructura
Completa cada oración con la forma correcta del verbo para construir una inversión enfática válida en inglés C2.
- Never before ___ the government faced such widespread criticism from its own party.
- Hardly ___ she stepped onto the stage when the audience burst into applause.
- Not only ___ he refuse to apologise, but he also dismissed all the evidence presented.
- So complex ___ the syntax of the treaty that even seasoned diplomats struggled to interpret it.
Correction
- Never before had the government faced such widespread criticism from its own party.
- Hardly had she stepped onto the stage when the audience burst into applause.
- Not only did he refuse to apologise, but he also dismissed all the evidence presented.
- So complex was the syntax of the treaty that even seasoned diplomats struggled to interpret it.
Exercice 2 — Frases escindidas: corrige los errores
Cada oración contiene un error relacionado con la construcción de cleft sentences (frases escindidas). Identifica el error y escribe la versión correcta completa.
- It was the lack of funding what caused the project to collapse.
- What she wanted it was a sincere acknowledgement of her contribution.
- It is until you read the original manuscript that you fully appreciate the author's intent.
- What did surprised the critics was the sheer brevity of the novel's final chapter.
Correction
- It was the lack of funding that caused the project to collapse.
- What she wanted was a sincere acknowledgement of her contribution.
- It is only when you read the original manuscript that you fully appreciate the author's intent.
- What surprised the critics was the sheer brevity of the novel's final chapter.
Exercice 3 — Extraposición: elige la estructura correcta
Elige la opción que utiliza correctamente la extraposición para reformular el sujeto de la oración con mayor elegancia y fluidez estilística.
- ¿Cuál de las siguientes oraciones emplea correctamente la extraposición?
- ¿Qué oración reformula correctamente mediante extraposición el sujeto oracional?
- ¿Cuál de estas oraciones usa la extraposición con un infinitivo de sujeto?
- ¿Cuál de las siguientes evita correctamente un sujeto oracional pesado mediante extraposición?
Correction
- It was remarkable that she had survived the ordeal.
- It remains unclear whether the negotiations will resume.
- It takes years of dedicated study to master syntactic variation.
- It struck him as ironic that his most celebrated work had been written in a single afternoon.
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