Editing Cleft sentence (section)

=== There-cleft ===
Looking at existential sentences, in all languages, they are understood to belong to a grammatically distinct construction, which is utilized to express existential positions. Cleft-sentences in English contain existential sentences that have a ''dummy there'' as a subject, ''be'' as a main verb, and an NP in the post-verbal complement position. To elaborate, ''dummy there'' can be distinguished as an adverbial, pronoun, and subject. Likewise, ''be'' can be distinguished as a main verb, and may contain other intransitive verbs such as ''come'', ''remain'', ''exist'', ''arise'', and ''stand''. Lastly, ''post-verbal NP'' depends on the discourse of the entity or entities that refer to the novel information it is expressing.<ref name="Cleft existential in English">{{cite journal |last1=Collins |first1=Peter |title=Cleft existential in English |journal=Language Sciences |date=October 1992 |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=419–433 |doi=10.1016/0388-0001(92)90024-9 |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/0388-0001(92)90024-9 |access-date=April 16, 2022}}</ref>
[[File:Syntax Tree for There-Cleft.png|thumb|There-Cleft sentence: "''And then there's a new house he wanted to build''."|240x240px]]

* '''English dummy ''there''-cleft:'''

# ''There's nobody there.''<ref name="Cleft existential in English"/>
# ''There seemed to be nothing he couldn't do.''<ref name="Cleft existential in English"/>

* '''English ''be there''-cleft:''' ''There comes a stage when a player should move on.''<ref name="Cleft existential in English"/>
* '''English post-verbal NP ''there''-cleft:''' ''There was George Talbot and there was Ted.''<ref name="Cleft existential in English"/>
* '''English ''there''-cleft:''' ''And then there's a new house he wanted to build.''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Irgin |first1=Pelin |title=A difficulty Analysis of Cleft Sentences |journal=International Online Journal of Education & Teaching |date=October 2013 |volume=1 |issue=1 |url = https://doaj.org/article/0902b7bd0c714524b8af95af72bc01cb | access-date=April 17, 2022}}</ref>
[[File:Syntax Tree for If-Because Cleft Sentence.png|thumb|248x248px|If-Because Cleft sentence: "''If he wants to be an actor it's because he wants to be famous."'']]