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Offline mallu

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Clefting a sentence
« on: March 14, 2016, 01:19:00 PM »
See the following sentence
1)Mary gave birth to Jesus
Now I would like to cleft the sentence
2)It was Mary who gave birth to Jesus.
Is this sentence unnatural due to any semantic anomaly ?
Hoping someone would help
Thanks in advance
« Last Edit: March 14, 2016, 10:19:45 PM by mallu »
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Offline Daniel

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Re: Clefting a sentence
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2016, 07:37:55 PM »
(2) emphasizes Mary rather than someone else (not Jane). It's a little unusual because most people know Mary is the mother of Jesus, but other than that, it's normal.
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