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想問我原本寫的算對嗎🙏（分裂強調句）

John went to his favorite restaurant for dinner
today.(強調句中地點)his.
It
was John's favorite restaurant that
the went to for dinner today,
John
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Shao

"It was John's favorite restaurant that he went to for dinner today."
"It was his favorite restaurant that John went to for dinner today."
結構上兩者都是分裂句，語法上也都沒有問題，所以單純以答題的角度兩者都是對的。

但是在細微的語意上，是有一點點不同的
前者更象在特別強調是那"John's favorite restaurant"
可能具有什麼特殊性、比如說者與聽者之前有提過這間restaurant

後者其實並沒有這麼強調，因為先採用了his，
而his的語意，在當下是不夠清楚的，聽者當下不會知道是"誰"的
直到後面的John went to時，整個語意才清楚。
因此，其實整體的語感比較像
"It was his favorite restaurant that John went to" for dinner today.
也就是說雖然採用了分裂句，但因為強調的東西本身不夠清晰，反而要看到後面才清楚
導致強調的功能有點模糊掉，變成有點像強調整個""的範圍
即 "John went to his favorite restaurant"
這個層面很細微，不太是語法會討論的，因為很講求上下文跟聽者的解讀

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