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Jigneshbharati Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Find it challenging

Even after studying articles for years, many non-native speakers of English find it challenging to use articles, especially in formal academic writing in English
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Please explain the use and grammar of "it" and what does it refer to?
  

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Jigneshbharati Please explain the use and grammar of "it" and what does it refer to? find it challenging to use articles = find that it is challenging to use articles The grammar of 'find' allows the pattern 'find it {adjective} {infinitive / that -clause}'. 'it' is regarded as a dummy 'it' that stands for the infinitive or that -clause which comes up later.

— CalifJim

  • Jigneshbharati Please explain the use and grammar of "it" and what does it refer to?
  • find it challenging to use articles = find that it is challenging to use articles The grammar of 'find' allows the pattern 'find it {adjective} {infinitive / that -clause}'.
  • 'it' is regarded as a dummy 'it' that stands for the infinitive or that -clause which comes up later.
  • I find it amazing that even children use computers these days.
  • Lucy found it difficult to complete her degree in nuclear physics.
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JigneshbharatiPlease explain the use and grammar of "it" and what does it refer to?
find it challenging to use articles = find that it is challenging to use articles

The grammar of 'find' allows the pattern 'find it {adjective} {infinitive / that-clause}'. 'it' is regarded as a dummy 'it' that stands for the infinitive or that-clause wh
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So is "it" not a pronoun which has any antecedent?
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JigneshbharatiSo is "it" not a pronoun which has any antecedent?
Right. It's a place-holder pronoun for a word group that comes later in the sentence.

Jake found it fairly easy to solve that problem.

Or, in bad, ungrammatical English: *Jake found (that) to solve that problem was fairly easy.

CJ
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