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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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formal subject "it" -American culture
It occur to me one day that why we use “it” to act as a formal subject in the subject clause. In class, I always told my students that it is because in American culture, people get used to put the long sentence backwards. Does my explanation make sense?
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Anonymous In class, I always told my students that it is because in American culture, people get used to put the long sentence backwards. Does my explanation make sense? No.
- Anonymous In class, I always told my students that it is because in American culture, people get used to put the long sentence backwards.
- Does my explanation make sense?
- No.
- I'm afraid not.
- It makes no sense at all because British, Australian, Indian, and many other speakers of English do the same thing.
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Anonymous In class, I always told my students that it is because in American culture, people get used to put the long sentence backwards. Does my explanation make sense?No. I'm afraid not. It makes no sense at all because British, Australian, Indian, and many other speakers of English do the same thing. The culture of the Americans, or of any other group,
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