Editing Cleft sentence (section)

=== It-cleft ===
In English, it-clefts consist of the pronoun ''it'', followed by a form of the verb ''to be'', a cleft constituent, and a [[complementizer]], which introduces a relative clause that is attributed to the cleft phrase.<ref name="AutoDU-1">{{Cite journal |last1=Bevacqua |first1=Luca |last2=Scheffler |first2=Tatjana |date=2020-01-01 |title=Form variation of pronominal it-clefts in written English |journal=Linguistics Vanguard |language=en |volume=6 |issue=1 |doi=10.1515/lingvan-2019-0066 |s2cid=230284069 |issn=2199-174X|doi-access=free }} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]]  Text was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License].</ref> It-clefts introduce two meanings parts: (1) a [[presupposition]] that the property in the clause following the complementiser holds of some entity; and (ii) an assertion that this property holds of the entity denoted by the cleft constituent.<ref name="AutoDU-1"/>

* '''English it-cleft:''' ''It was John that Mary saw.''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Reeve |first=Matthew |date=2011-01-01 |title=The syntactic structure of English clefts |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384110001476 |journal=Lingua |language=en |volume=121 |issue=2 |pages=142–171 |doi=10.1016/j.lingua.2010.05.004 |issn=0024-3841}}</ref>