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December 12th, 2005

Fifth Dimension Found

I’ve been trying to help a friend find the name for using a placeholder subject in a sentence. “It’s three o clock”, “There’s food on the table” etc. OED not an astonishing amount of use, but does classify the first one: ‘it’ can be used in the normal subject position when referring to time, distance or weather!

Written by Andrew Farrell on Monday, December 12th, 2005 | 326 views |

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