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verb - to insert a scion into the stock of a plant
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| The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate. |
| The process of transforming a sentence into a pseudo-cleft sentence. |
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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. In spoken language, 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.Furthermore, one might also describe a cleft sentence as inverted. That is to say, it has its dependent clause in front of the main clause. So, rather than: * * We didn't |