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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
The structure "that is~that"
1945, the war is ending but the archeologist and SS officer Ernst Schafer, beneficiating of the protection of the powerful Dragon Order carries on with his research. That's when he discovers that Hitler had, at the very heart of his home, a passage towards the underground world of Agharta... The Thule society is finally within his reach!
cf) It is pizza that Suzi likes most? the structure "it is~ that."
I'd like to know here if the structure "that's ~ that" is similar to "it is ~that" in the function.
Thank you in advance for your help.
cf) It is pizza that Suzi likes most? the structure "it is~ that."
I'd like to know here if the structure "that's ~ that" is similar to "it is ~that" in the function.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
" Clef sentence structure of the base sentence: Suzi likes pizza most. The other sentence is not a clef structure. It is the pronoun "that" with a complement noun clause.
- " Clef sentence structure of the base sentence: Suzi likes pizza most.
- The other sentence is not a clef structure.
- It is the pronoun "that" with a complement noun clause.
- That is when we left .
- (noun clause, complement of is ) That is when we discovered the secret.
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park sang joonIt is pizza that Suzi likes mostExistential "it." Clef sentence structure of the base sentence:
Suzi likes pizza most.
The other sentence is not a clef structure. It is the pronoun "that" with a complement noun clause.
That is when we left. (noun clause, complement of is )
That is when we discovered
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