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• pseudo-cleft sentence — /sooh doh kleft , sooh doh kleft /. See cleft sentence (def. 2). * * * …   Universalium

• pseudo-cleft sentence — /sooh doh kleft , sooh doh kleft /. See cleft sentence (def. 2) …   Useful english dictionary

• Cleft sentence — 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. This focusing is often accompanied …   Wikipedia

• cleft sentence — Gram. 1. a sentence in which a simpler sentence is paraphrased by being divided into two parts, each with its own verb, in order to emphasize certain information, esp. a sentence beginning with expletive it and a form of be followed by the… …   Universalium

• Spaltsatz — Ein Spaltsatz (von engl. cleft sentence) ergibt sich, wenn ein Hauptsatz in eine Konstruktion aus Haupt (Kopulasatz) und Nebensatz (Relativsatz) transformiert wird, um eine Nominalphrase (NP) mit einem (kontrastiven) Fokus bzw. einer Emphase zu… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Spaltsätze — Ein Spaltsatz (von engl. cleft sentence) ergibt sich, wenn ein Hauptsatz in eine Konstruktion aus Haupt (Kopulasatz) und Nebensatz (Relativsatz) transformiert wird, um eine Nominalphrase (NP) mit einem (kontrastiven) Fokus bzw. einer Emphase zu… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Stative verb — A stative verb is one which asserts that one of its arguments has a particular property (possibly in relation to its other arguments). Statives differ from other aspectual classes of verbs in that they are static; they have no duration and no… …   Wikipedia

• List of diseases (P) — A list of diseases in the English Wikipedia.DiseasesTOC PaPac Pal* Pachydermoperiostosis * Pachygyria * Pachyonychia congenita Jackson Lawler type * Pacman dysplasia * Paes Whelan Modi syndrome * Paget disease extramammary * Paget disease… …   Wikipedia

• List of cutaneous conditions — This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. See also: Cutaneous conditions, Category:Cutaneous conditions, and ICD 10… …   Wikipedia

• Rhinoplasty — For the album by Primus, see Rhinoplasty (album). Rhinoplasty Intervention Rhinoplasty: The lower lateral cartilage (greater alar cartilage) exposed for plastic modification via the left nostril …   Wikipedia