cleft sentence
Noun
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Noun
cleft sentence (plural cleft sentences)
- (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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