GRAMMAR |
ADDING EMPHASIS
a. Base sentence:
I hate the waste of human life in battle.
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Complement |
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The thing What |
I hate about battle is the waste of human life |
It´s the waste of human life that I hate — That (pronoun) (verb)
b. Base sentence:
Education changed people's lives forever.
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The thing What Something |
education did was change people's lives forever. |
More complex examples:
- What Lucy did was move to Peru.
What= the thing which /that
- All (that) Mary did was move to Peru.
All= the only thing
- The (only/first) thing Mary did was move to Peru.
- Where Mary moved to was Peru.
Where= the place which/that
- Why Mary moved to was Peru because she wanted to live in Cusco.
Why= the reason for
- It was Mary who/that moved to Peru.
Who= the person who/that
