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Hi, Fluffy. Thanks for your prompt and detailed reply. Yes, the second example (the one I came up with in class) does tend to take the pattern that you have described. Before reading your reply I used http://www.phraseup.com/ and it said as much. I think this is a case of my everyday speech tripping...

I've just done a lesson on 'fronting'. The students were required to transform the given phrases by adding 'what, do, and is'. Thus, the sentence 'I'm going to talk about motivation' becomes 'What I'm going to do is talk about motivation'. We were OK until we came to the sentence 'I'm going to be lo...