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Noun Concept
Categories: Pronouns, All articles needing additional references, Transitivity and valency
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dummy pronoun  Dummy it  dummy subject  expletive pronoun  pleonastic pronoun
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A dummy pronoun is a deictic pronoun that fulfills a syntactical requirement without providing a contextually explicit meaning of its referent. Wikipedia
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A dummy pronoun is a deictic pronoun that fulfills a syntactical requirement without providing a contextually explicit meaning of its referent. Wikipedia
Such as it in the sentence it is good to relax Wikipedia Disambiguation
A pronoun used to fulfill a syntactic role rather than one with a specific referent. For example, the "it" in "It's raining.". Wiktionary
IS A
function word
pronoun
Syntactic expletive
Wikipedia
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dummy pronoun
Wikidata
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dummy pronoun
Wiktionary
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dummy pronoun
Wikipedia Redirections
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Dummy it, dummy subject, expletive pronoun, pleonastic pronoun, weather it
Wikidata Alias
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expletive pronoun, pleonastic pronoun

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