Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "A cleft sentence is a complex sentence (one having a main clause and a dependent clause) that has a meaning that could be expressed by a simple sentence. Clefts typically put a particular constituent into focus. This focusing is often accompanied by a special intonation.In English, a cleft sentence can be constructed as follows:it + conjugated form of to be + X + subordinate clausewhere it is a cleft pronoun and X is usually a noun phrase (although it can also be a prepositional phrase, and in some cases an adjectival or adverbial phrase). The focus is on X, or else on the subordinate clause or some element of it. For example:It's Joey (whom) we're looking for.It's money that I love.It was from John that she heard the news.It was meeting Jim that really started me off on this new line of work."@en }
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- Cleft_sentence abstract "A cleft sentence is a complex sentence (one having a main clause and a dependent clause) that has a meaning that could be expressed by a simple sentence. Clefts typically put a particular constituent into focus. This focusing is often accompanied by a special intonation.In English, a cleft sentence can be constructed as follows:it + conjugated form of to be + X + subordinate clausewhere it is a cleft pronoun and X is usually a noun phrase (although it can also be a prepositional phrase, and in some cases an adjectival or adverbial phrase). The focus is on X, or else on the subordinate clause or some element of it. For example:It's Joey (whom) we're looking for.It's money that I love.It was from John that she heard the news.It was meeting Jim that really started me off on this new line of work.".