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Noun Concept
Categories: Parts of speech, Syntactic entities, Noindexed articles
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Syntactic expletive  Prep it  Preparatory it
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A syntactic expletive is a form of expletive: a word that in itself contributes nothing to the semantic meaning of a sentence, yet does perform a syntactic role. Wikipedia
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A syntactic expletive is a form of expletive: a word that in itself contributes nothing to the semantic meaning of a sentence, yet does perform a syntactic role. Wikipedia
Word that contributes nothing to the semantic meaning of a sentence but performs a syntactic role (e.g. "it" in "it is raining") Wikidata
IS A
function word
expletive
HAS KIND
dummy pronoun
DIFFERENT FROM
function word
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Syntactic expletive
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syntactic expletive
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Prep it, Preparatory it

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