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What is the grammatical function of "be" and why what type of sentence is "be it..."? What does "it" in "be it.." referer to?
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Priyanka Chopra’s much awaited movie ‘Baywatch’ has lived up to the hype in the West making her a desirable and hot villain. Be it the movie’s premiere or promotions, PeeCee has been on her toes flaunting the most droolworthy outfits. This is a special kind of conditional called an 'exhaustive conditional construction' , where a subordinate interrogative conditional clause functions as an adjunct .
- Priyanka Chopra’s much awaited movie ‘Baywatch’ has lived up to the hype in the West making her a desirable and hot villain.
- Be it the movie’s premiere or promotions, PeeCee has been on her toes flaunting the most droolworthy outfits.
- This is a special kind of conditional called an 'exhaustive conditional construction' , where a subordinate interrogative conditional clause functions as an adjunct .
- Untypically and for formal effect, the subordinate clause here has subjunctive form.
- In your example, the subordinate clause (an alternant of the “whether” construction) with “be” has inversion instead of the subordinator “whether”.
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Priyanka Chopra’s much awaited movie ‘Baywatch’ has lived up to the hype in the West making her a desirable and hot villain. Be it the movie’s premiere or promotions, PeeCee has been on her toes flaunting the most droolworthy outfits.
This is a special kind of conditional called an 'exhaustive conditional construction', where a subordinate interrogative conditio
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