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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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What is a cleft sentence?!?
  

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Anonymous What is a cleft sentence?!? A cleft sentence is a sentence derived from a non-cleft sentence so it has the form It is X that ... Robert stole the jewels.

  • Anonymous What is a cleft sentence?!?
  • A cleft sentence is a sentence derived from a non-cleft sentence so it has the form It is X that ...
  • Robert stole the jewels.
  • >> It was the jewels that Robert stole.
  • / It was Robert who stole the jewels.
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Anonymous What is a cleft sentence?!?
A cleft sentence is a sentence derived from a non-cleft sentence so it has the form

It is X that ...

Robert stole the jewels. >> It was the jewels that Robert stole. / It was Robert who stole the jewels.


X is called "the highlighted element".

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