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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Pseudo-cleft

Why I won’t be coming in to work today is because I couldn't sleep well this night.

Is the the sentence above grammatical and a pseudo-cleft one?

Is "work" a noun there?

  

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The reason why I won’t be coming in to work today is because I couldn't sleep well last this night. " It is a normal sentence, not a cleft. "work" can be interpreted as a verb or noun.

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  • The reason why I won’t be coming in to work today is because I couldn't sleep well last this night.
  • " It is a normal sentence, not a cleft.
  • "work" can be interpreted as a verb or noun.
  • Most (99%) of the time it is assumed to be a noun - workplace.
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The reason why I won’t be coming in to work today is because I couldn't sleep well last this night.

Informally you can omit "the reason." It is a normal sentence, not a cleft.

"work" can be interpreted as a verb or noun. Most (99%) of the time it is assumed to be a noun - workplace.

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anonymousIs the the sentence above grammatical

No. It needs some changes. This would work:

The reason I won't be coming to work today is that I didn't sleep well last night.

But there's no need to make it so complicated. I would write this:

I won't be coming to work today because I didn't sleep well last night.

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