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Teo Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

evacuee

According to Longman Advanced American Dictionary, 2000, an evacuee is 'someone who is moved away from a place that it is dangerous, for example because there is a war.'

I feel that it is grammatically incorrect to use it in the above definition. Is my judgment correct?
  

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You can use "it", or not. I would not have used it in this sentence. I would have written, "...

  • You can use "it", or not.
  • I would not have used it in this sentence.
  • I would have written, "...
  • from a place that is dangerous".
  • However, you can write "...
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You can use "it", or not.
I would not have used it in this sentence. I would have written, "... from a place that is dangerous".

However, you can write "... from a place that it is dangerous to be in", or "from a place in which it is dangerous to be". The simpler structure behind this is:

To be in that place is dangerous.

From this, we get:

It
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CalifJimYou can use "it", or not.
I would not have used it in this sentence. I would have written, "... from a place that is dangerous".

However, you can write "... from a place that it is dangerous to be in", or "from a place in which it is dangerous to be". The simpler structure behind this is:

To be in that place is dangerous.

From this
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Sorry, I don't like the "it" either... "That" is already the subject of "is", what would "it" be then? Emotion: tongue tied
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Teo
According to Longman Advanced American Dictionary, 2000, an evacuee is 'someone who is moved away from a place that it is dangerous, for example because there is a war.'

I feel that it is grammatically incorrect to use it in the above definition. Is my judgment correct?

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