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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Dummy 'it'/ pronoun 'it'

The written word is a powerful tool… something Mikimoto knows all too well. Talented and devious, Mikimoto has everything it takes to make a top-rated journalist, but what would a journalist be without a good scandal to write about?

I'd like to know if "it" is dummy in "everything it takes to make a top-rated journalist."
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

Top answer

By "dummy" do you mean "silly"? "Dummy" as an adjective is not used in that context. Is it silly?

— Xerxes

  • By "dummy" do you mean "silly"?
  • "Dummy" as an adjective is not used in that context.
  • Is it silly?
  • No, not at all.
  • In fact, that's the way we say it.
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By "dummy" do you mean "silly"? "Dummy" as an adjective is not used in that context. Emotion: smile

Is it silly? No, not at all. In fact,
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No, he means whether "it" has an antecedent in the sentence or whether it just means the general situation.

It's the latter.
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Apologies, I may have misunderstood, then.
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park sang jooneverything it takes to make a top-rated journalist
It takes [something / someone / an amount of time] (to ...) is an idiom in which 'it' is preposed to take the place of the real subject (the infinitive), so yes, that's a "dummy it".

It takes two hours to get to Los Angeles.
It takes several cups of flour to m
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