This is similar to the cleft sentence construction.
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:: The OP's second and third examples are perfectly normal cleft sentences.
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:The first sentence appears to be a mistake : the writer apparently started to write a cleft sentence, and then forgot they had, so it lacks a main verb.
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For example, if we translate a cleft sentence such as " It was Juan who lost the keys ", we get " Fue Juan el que perdi?las llaves ."
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:: : Although I don't know of experimental examples off the top of my head, I am fairly certain English speakers find the cleft sentence ( b ) more difficult.
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The remaining portions of the cleft sentences in ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) are noun phrases that contain headless relative clauses . ( NB : Tagalog does not have an overt copula .)
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Stevick calls this intonation the relative mood of the verb, since it is frequently used in relative clauses; however, it is also used in a range of other dependent clauses, such as conditional clauses, cleft sentences, and adverbial clauses of time, place, manner, and concession.
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Sentences with similar meaning can be produced using relative clauses ( these may be called pseudo-cleft sentences ), for example : " zu�tin sh?t m?i c�i de sh�jin " " yesterday is he buy food DE time ", i . e . " yesterday was the time he bought food ".
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Another way is through a cleft sentence where the main clause is demoted to be a complement clause of a copula sentence with a dummy subject such as " it " or " there ", e . g . " it was the girl that the bee stung ", " there was a girl who was stung by a bee ".
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You would have to include " it " in cleft sentences, and this might be termed "'focal " "'it " ( " It was Jimmy who sent the poor sod to Coventry / It was the poor sod Jimmy sent to Conventry / It was Coventry Jimmy sent the poor sod to . " ) Even so, I doubt whether the list would be quite exhaustive then . talk ) 00 : 12, 9 February 2008 ( UTC)
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