It was last night that...
It was last night that John was wearing pink socks.
(From a grammar book.)
What part of speech is that in the cleft sentence above? Is it a relative pronoun or a relative adverb?
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It doesn't seem like either to me. "John was wearing pink socks" does not tell us what kind of "last night". I would say it's a conjunction.
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It doesn't seem like either to me. "John was wearing pink socks" does not tell us what kind of "last night". I would say it's a conjunction.
0tkacka15It was last night that John was wearing pink socks.
(From a grammar book.) What part of speech is that in the cleft sentence above? Is it a relative pronoun or a relative adverb?
It was last night [that John was wearing pink socks ___ ].
Traditional grammar calls "that" a relative pronoun in your exampl
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