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Encyclopedia > Cleft sentence

A cleft sentence is a way of focusing on a particular part of a sentence.


Normally you use it to focus on a noun phrase. For example you might use:

  • It was money James wanted

rather than

  • James wanted money.

However, you can also focus on a clause element or a whole clause. For example:

  • It was from John that she heard the news
  • It was meeting Jim that really started me off on this new line of work.



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Spanish grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1200 words)
A cleft sentence is one formed with the copular verb (generally with a dummy pronoun like "it" as its subject), plus a word that "cleaves" the sentence, plus a subordinate clause.
Structures unambiguously identifiable as cleft sentences are used.
This structure is quite wordy, and is therefore often avoided by not using a cleft sentence at all.
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