'Cleft sentences' presentation slideshows

Tectogrammatical representation of English

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SENTENCE TRANSFORMATIONS!

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Lecture 29 It Patterns

Lecture 29 It Patterns. 29.1 Empty it and anticipatory it 1) Empty it Empty it, as formal subject, also occurs in sentences denoting a general situation, eg. It has fared well with him. It was dull when Mary was away. . 2) Anticipatory it.

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Continuous Discontinuity in It -Clefts

Continuous Discontinuity in It -Clefts. Chung-hye Han and Nancy Hedberg, Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University. Introduction. Equative it -cleft: It was Ohno who won. (1) It was OHNO [who won] cleft pronoun + copula + clefted constituent + cleft clause

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