Right node raising

Okay kiddo, let me explain a fancy grammar term called "right node raising". Imagine you have a sentence that talks about two things that are similar, like "I like pizza and spaghetti." When we speak, we can sometimes leave out repeated words to make it easier to say, so we might say "I like pizza and spaghetti" instead of "I like pizza and I like spaghetti."

Right node raising happens when we take the second "like" word and move it up to the front of the sentence, like this: "I like pizza, and spaghetti I like." It still means the same thing, but we're breaking the usual sentence structure rules.

What makes this even trickier is when the two things we're talking about are really long, like "I like playing basketball with my friends after school and listening to music on the weekends." If we want to simplify that sentence, we can move the second half up to the front, like this: "I like playing basketball with my friends after school, and listening to music on the weekends I like." It's more complicated, but it's still correct!

So, basically, right node raising is when we break the rules of how we normally structure our sentences by moving the repeating part of a sentence up to the front. It can make things sound a little weird, but it's still grammatically correct.