Cleft sentence

noun

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.nounA 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.

Synonyms

clefting cleft clitic cleftstone enclitic cleavage clitichood mesoclitic proclitic clough cliticization cleft grafting

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