pseudo-cleft sentence

A term used in GRAMMATICAL description to refer to a CONSTRUCTION which resembles a CLEFT SENTENCE, in that a single CLAUSE has been divided into two separate sections, each with its own VERB, but with the essential difference that the subject is a free-standing wh-clause. For example, the sentence You are a fool is related to What you are is a fool or (an ‘inverted’ or ‘reversed’ pseudo-cleft) A fool is what you are.