Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
WH cleft
Can someone please doule check my answer for the following questions
Write a sentence which satisfies each of the syntactic forms indicated:
(1) Maryam read her book out loud
WH cleft = Why do maryam read her book out loud?
IT cleft= It was loud how Mayam reads her book.
Write a sentence which satisfies each of the syntactic forms indicated:
(1) Maryam read her book out loud
WH cleft = Why do maryam read her book out loud?
IT cleft= It was loud how Mayam reads her book.
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Anonymous WH cleft = Why do maryam read her book out loud? Why did Maryam read her book out loud? IT cleft= It was loud how Mayam reads her book.
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Anonymous WH cleft = Why do maryam read her book out loud? Why did Maryam read her book out loud?Hi,
IT cleft= It was loud how Mayam reads her book.It was loud how Maryam read her book.
I just changed the tenses to agree with the original. I'm not into clefts.
"Read" is a tricky word. If I write, "I read the
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AnonymousMaryam read her book out loud.
What Maryam read out loud was her book.
What Maryam did was read her book out loud.
It was Maryam that read her book out loud.
It was her book that Maryam read out loud.
CJ
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I think my best explanation of cleft sentences is at .
But you might want to read these as well
CJ
But you might want to read these as well
CJ
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Thanks, CJ. Wow! I had no idea all this was going on. My harmony professor always said, "The thing about it is this:" Strange that only the IT cleft should rise to the status of legitimacy. Perhaps it was the first to be named. But on the other hand, psuedo-ephedrine is better than ephedrine. (We need a word for "not a genuine psuedo.")
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