Adonica86 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Desperate for help with Dummy it
Look at this sentence please:
To the Italiens involved in the project, it is no surprise that it was an American who got it started.
I was asked to comment on the underlined "it" here, but I can`t find any examples in my book where there are more than one "it" in the sentence..
I think there is an "anticipatory it" in the sentence, because you could switch the sentence around and say "That it was an American who got it started, is no surprise.. " So the first "it" is an anticipatory? what about the other two? This totally confused me...
To the Italiens involved in the project, it is no surprise that it was an American who got it started.
I was asked to comment on the underlined "it" here, but I can`t find any examples in my book where there are more than one "it" in the sentence..
I think there is an "anticipatory it" in the sentence, because you could switch the sentence around and say "That it was an American who got it started, is no surprise.. " So the first "it" is an anticipatory? what about the other two? This totally confused me...
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Adonica86 Look at this sentence please: To the Italiens involved in the project, it is no surprise that it was an American who got it started. I was asked to comment on the underlined "it" here, but I can`t find any examples in my book where there are more than one "it" in the sentence.. I think there is an "anticipatory it" in the sentence, because you could switch the sentence around and say "That it was an American who got it started, is no surprise..
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Adonica86Look at this sentence please:
To the Italiens involved in the project, it is no surprise that it was an American who got it started.
I was asked to comment on the underlined "it" here, but I can`t find any examples in my book where there are more than one "it" in the sentence..
I think there is an "anticipatory it" in the sentence, because y
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