Cleft sentence
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cleft-sentence-212-2941284
title:
Cleft sentence
text:
A cleft sentence is a complex sentence that has a meaning that could be expressed by a simple sentence. Clefts typically put a particular constituent into focus. In spoken language, this focusing is often accompanied by a special intonation. Inn English, a cleft sentence can be constructed as follows:
- it + conjugated form of to be + X + subordinate clause where it is a cleft pronoun and X is usually a noun phrase. The focus is on X, or else on the subordinate clause or some element of it. Fo
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Complex sentence that could be expressed in a simpler way
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_sentence
date created:
2004-07-30T19:55:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T05:36:23Z
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