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Cleft Sentence1
Cleft Sentence1
It is important to note that in the first place in cleft sentences is always expletive
“It” and that “It” is called a cleft pronoun. If we compare cleft sentences and
sentences whose paraphrase they are, we can conclude that something is “moved”
in the original sentence in order to make a new, cleft sentence.
While in the “normal” sentence we can have a simple construction, for example
“Jill told me about it”, which is a simple clause, in cleft sentences construction is
more complex. Thus, in a cleft sentence “It was Jill who told me about it”, there is
a relative sentence “It was Jill” plus the rest of the sentence “who told me about
it”.
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Takođe, u engleskom jeziku imamo dva tipa Cleft sentences koji se relativno
često koriste. Prvi počinje sa »It was only then...» a drugi je «It wasn't
until...».Prilikom prevođenja na srpski jezik skoro je nemoguće preneti
naglašenost koju imaju ovi počeci rečenica u engleskom jeziku. Ipak, možemo bar
donekle da umanjimo razliku između Cleft sentences na engleskom jeziku i
njihovih prevoda na srpski jezik. Tako rečenicu «It was only then that she realized
that he had been cheating on her» možemo prevesti sa «Tek tada je shvatila da ju
je on varao». A rečenicu «It wasn't until I got a job that I started living on my
own» prevodimo kao «Tek kada sam dobio posao počeo sam da živim sam».