[Grammar] cleft sentences

[bhagona]

Hi teachers,Stella writes novels.following are the cleft sentences that I could make, please tell if these are wrong, and why.1. What she (stella) does is to write novels2. What she does is writes novels.Thanks.

 

[corum]

What you constructed is a pseudo-cleft sentence and not a cleft sentence.

What he does is write novels. :tick:
What he did is write novels. :tick:
What he did is wrote novels. :cross:
What he does is writes novels. :cross:

You need the bare infinitive form of "write", which is "write". :up:

Clefts are these:

It is novels that he writes. :tick:
It is novels that he wrote. :tick:
It is novels that he write. :cross:
:up: