When even the passive voice won't do

THERE are times when we'll find both the active voice and the passive voice falling short of giving us the desired emphasis for a statement. That's when we take recourse to a the cleft sentence, so-called because it "cleaves" or splits a single-clause sentence into two clauses for semantic emphasis or style. It's the written equivalent of making our voice louder to draw attention to the most important points of what we are saying.