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cleft sentences
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sukrani
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cleft sentences
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Can you help me with this sentence please ? I totally got confused. While I was teaching cleft sentences, I came across this sentence �The beautiful parks is what I like about London � and I said instead of �is � , we should be using �are �. But students objected to this. Because the previous sentence was " What I like about London is its beautiful parks." So which one is correct ? is or are ? |
25 Jan 2016
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oksandriyash
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I think that when you say "What i like about London IS its beautiful parks" you mean "the THING that you like about London" that �s why the verb is singular. May be the same you can say about another sentence. That � s what I think))) |
25 Jan 2016
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cunliffe
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The beautiful parks are what I like about London. What I like about London is its beautiful parks. Oksandriyash �s point is correct and so are both of those sentences.
Edit: Well, I�ve never heard of a cleft sentence, but I think both of those sentences are fine.
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25 Jan 2016
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FrauSue
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I �m a native speaker, and I agree with Lynne - "the beautiful parks are what I like" but "What I like is the beautiful parks" because it just sounds wrong otherwise. |
26 Jan 2016
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redcamarocruiser
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Q:What is a cleft sentence? A: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv149.shtml I agree with Lynne and the others because "Whai I like is this" (singular) but the subject "The parks" is plural and therfore needs a plural verb. |
26 Jan 2016
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