cleft sentence

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Noun

cleft sentence noun

A complex sentence whose meaning could be expressed by a simple sentence, and typically stressing a particular constituent, such as It's money that I love or It was from John that she heard the news.

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clefting cleft clitic cleftstone enclitic cleavage clitichood mesoclitic proclitic clough cliticization cleft grafting cleft chin cleftgraft chap cliticalization

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