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JungKim Posted 7 years ago
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What is it with you that makes me act like this?

What is it with you that makes me act like this?

Is this sentence an it-cleft?

Or is the that-clause a relative clause that modifies What?

  

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Yes, it's an interrogative cleft, and yes, the backgrounded element in a cleft construction is a relative clause, but no, it doesn't modify "what". We discussed this before, I recall.

— BillJ

  • Yes, it's an interrogative cleft, and yes, the backgrounded element in a cleft construction is a relative clause, but no, it doesn't modify "what".
  • We discussed this before, I recall.
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Yes, it's an interrogative cleft, and yes, the backgrounded element in a cleft construction is a relative clause, but no, it doesn't modify "what".

We discussed this before, I recall.

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