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=== All-cleft === In English, all-cleft sentences are related to pseudo-clefts in which they are constructed with the subject of the sentence embedded in the phrase and expressed with the verb "to be".<ref name="BONELLI 30β42">{{Cite journal |last=BONELLI |first=ELENA TOGNINI |date=1992-01-01 |title='All I'm Saying Isβ¦': The Correlation of Form and Function in Pseudo-cleft Sentences |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/7.1.30 |journal=Literary and Linguistic Computing |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=30β42 |doi=10.1093/llc/7.1.30 |issn=0268-1145}}</ref> Where pseudo-clefts begin with a wh-phrase (''what'', ''where'', ''who''), all-clefts begin with the use of the word "all".<ref name="BONELLI 30β42"/>[[File:Syntax Tree for All-Cleft.png|thumb|214x214px|All Cleft sentence: "''All they want is a holiday."'']] * '''English ''all''-cleft:''' # ''All he wanted to buy was a Fiat.''<ref name="iojet.org">{{cite journal |last1=Pelin |first1=Irgin |title=A Difficulty Analysis of Cleft Sentences |journal=International Online Journal of Education & Teaching |date=Oct 2013 |volume=1 |issue=1 |url=https://www.iojet.org/index.php/IOJET/article/view/10 |access-date=April 20, 2022}}</ref> # ''All they want is a holiday.''<ref name="BONELLI 30β42"/>
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