Ejercicios C2 : Las variaciones sintácticas en inglés

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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Ejercicio 1 : Inversión enfática: completa la estructura

Completa cada oración con la forma correcta del verbo para construir una inversión enfática válida en inglés C2.

1. Never before ___ the government faced such widespread criticism from its own party.
2. Hardly ___ she stepped onto the stage when the audience burst into applause.
3. Not only ___ he refuse to apologise, but he also dismissed all the evidence presented.
4. So complex ___ the syntax of the treaty that even seasoned diplomats struggled to interpret it.

Correction

1. Never before had the government faced such widespread criticism from its own party.
2. Hardly had she stepped onto the stage when the audience burst into applause.
3. Not only did he refuse to apologise, but he also dismissed all the evidence presented.
4. So complex was the syntax of the treaty that even seasoned diplomats struggled to interpret it.

Ejercicio 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.

1. It was the lack of funding what caused the project to collapse.
2. What she wanted it was a sincere acknowledgement of her contribution.
3. It is until you read the original manuscript that you fully appreciate the author's intent.
4. What did surprised the critics was the sheer brevity of the novel's final chapter.

Correction

1. It was the lack of funding that caused the project to collapse.
2. What she wanted was a sincere acknowledgement of her contribution.
3. It is only when you read the original manuscript that you fully appreciate the author's intent.
4. What surprised the critics was the sheer brevity of the novel's final chapter.

Ejercicio 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.

1. Which of the following sentences correctly uses extraposition?
   • That she had survived the ordeal was remarkable.
   • It was remarkable that she had survived the ordeal.
   • It was remarkable what she had survived the ordeal.
   • That remarkable it was she had survived the ordeal.
2. Which sentence correctly rephrases the clausal subject using extraposition?
   • It remains unclear whether the negotiations will resume.
   • Whether the negotiations will resume it remains unclear.
   • It remains unclear if or whether the negotiations to resume.
   • That the negotiations remain unclear whether will resume.
3. Which of these sentences uses extraposition with an infinitive subject?
   • To master syntactic variation takes years of dedicated study.
   • It takes years of dedicated study to master syntactic variation.
   • Years of dedicated study it takes to master syntactic variation.
   • It is years of dedicated study that to master syntactic variation takes.
4. Which of the following correctly avoids a heavy clausal subject by means of extraposition?
   • It struck him as ironic that his most celebrated work had been written in a single afternoon.
   • That his most celebrated work had been written in a single afternoon it struck him as ironic.
   • It struck him as ironic what his most celebrated work had written in a single afternoon.
   • His most celebrated work having been written in a single afternoon, it struck him ironic.

Correction

1. It was remarkable that she had survived the ordeal.
2. It remains unclear whether the negotiations will resume.
3. It takes years of dedicated study to master syntactic variation.
4. It struck him as ironic that his most celebrated work had been written in a single afternoon.