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Liveinjapan Posted 18 years ago
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I love it up here

1i00"I love it up here," Roberts said at Academy Awards.02i02br
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01i00"it"02i00 is demonstrative and "01i00(being) up here"02i00 is a true object of love, right?02br
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02br 02br 00You could say, "I love the weather up here," and I'm quite sure my analysis would be correct. " In this case, "it" is clearly the object. Right?

— Avangi

  • 02br 02br 00You could say, "I love the weather up here," and I'm quite sure my analysis would be correct.
  • " In this case, "it" is clearly the object.
  • Right?
  • Or would you say, "being up here" is the true object?
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0This is just an opinion: I believe "it" is the object of the verb "love," and the prepositional phrase "up here" modified "it." You're probably right and I'm probably wrong.02br
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00You could say, "I love the weather up here," and I'm quite sure my analysis would be correct. But your analysis sounds reasonable.02br
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00"I've been up here for a we
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01cite10Avangi12cite10I love the weather up here12blockquote
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00Thanks, Avangi. I really understand what you mean.02br
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00"it" is certainly the object in those cases and in your example my analysis doesn't work.02br
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00I was just thinking similar cases like:02br
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01cite10Liveinjapan12cite10I like it when you sing a song.12blockquote
10Hi LiJ, 02br
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00This is surely the same as "I love it (being) up here." I've just never been exposed to the idea of "it" as a token object. I'd like to learn about it, if you have a reference. 02br
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0 I think it's an object you have to put there because in English it's required. You can say "I love you" or "I love this place", but you can't say "I love here", or "I love when you are here". Those would be ok in Italian, but in English there's no object, and you need one. So it seems that to make an adverb become the object, you need an "it", which probably does not mean anything in reality.
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0Do you think we've made an improvement with the "new" expression, "I 01b00hate02b00 when that happens"?0-
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0 Hmm, I didn't know that. I just tried googling it, and yeah, lots of people say 01i00"I hate when..."02i00 or 01i00"I love when..."02i00, with no "it". How common is that? I really didn't know it was possible. 0-
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0It's a casual comedy line that might have been popularized by a movie. I believe it's reached the peak of its popularity and is now fading. It's often used to show mock sympathy for a companion to whom something embarrassing happens.0-
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