Cleft-sentence Definition

noun

(linguistics) 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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Noun

Singular:
cleft-sentence
Plural:
cleft-sentences

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