cleft sentence

noun Grammar.

a sentence in which a simpler sentence is paraphrased by being divided into two parts, each with its own verb, in order to emphasize certain information, especially a sentence beginning with expletive it and a form of be followed by the information being emphasized, as It was a mushroom that Alice ate instead of Alice ate a mushroom.

Also called pseudo-cleft sentence. a two-part sentence in which a subject or subject complement expresses information being emphasized and an indefinite relative clause corresponds to the rest of a simpler sentence that has been paraphrased, as A mushroom was what Alice ate or What Alice ate was a mushroom.

Words nearby cleft sentence

clef, cleft, cleft hand, cleft lip, cleft palate, cleft sentence, cleft spine, cleft tongue, cleg, Clegg, cleidal

单词	cleft sentence
释义	cleft sentence noun Grammar. a sentence in which a simpler sentence is paraphrased by being divided into two parts, each with its own verb, in order to emphasize certain information, especially a sentence beginning with expletive it and a form of be followed by the information being emphasized, as It was a mushroom that Alice ate instead of Alice ate a mushroom. Also called pseudo-cleft sentence. a two-part sentence in which a subject or subject complement expresses information being emphasized and an indefinite relative clause corresponds to the rest of a simpler sentence that has been paraphrased, as A mushroom was what Alice ate or What Alice ate was a mushroom. Words nearby cleft sentence clef, cleft, cleft hand, cleft lip, cleft palate, cleft sentence, cleft spine, cleft tongue, cleg, Clegg, cleidal Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
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