 Re: The red one it is.
Well I did say groping in the dark I was. I got my examples mixed up - I knew what I was trying to say but reversed the examples (I was on a very heavy dose of antihistamines at the time ...) What I was trying to say is :
You're right - It's the complement:
A. The one we will buy (S) is (V) the red one (C)
So replacing the one we will buy with the pronoun it gives us the emphatic version:
The red one (fronted complement) it (S = the one we will buy) is (V)
The second version :
The red one (S) is (V) the one we will buy.(C)
is irrelevant here.
But I managed to say exactly the opposite. The same day I also managed to make three appointments at exactly the same time, realise, cancel two of them and rearrange both at the same time as yet other appointments.
Befuddled I was. |