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Cleft sentences

It was… / What I mean is… — splitting a sentence to point at one part.

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  • English Grammar

Related concepts

  • Concessive and contrastive structures
  • Discourse markers in extended argument
  • Hedging and boosting
  • Inversion and fronting for emphasis
  • Marked and unmarked word order in writing
  • Nominalization

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