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Kunsusuki Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Is it correct?

Is the following sentence correct? Thank you in advance.
' When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble'
  

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kunsusuki Is the following sentence correct? Yes, if you add a question mark at the end. CJ

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  • kunsusuki Is the following sentence correct?
  • Yes, if you add a question mark at the end.
  • CJ
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kunsusukiIs the following sentence correct?
Yes, if you add a question mark at the end.

CJ
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' When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?'
What does the pronoun 'it' refer to?
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kunsusukiWhat does the pronoun 'it' refer to?
It is a "non-referring" it that we use to take the subject position when the semantic subject is a that-clause which occurs later in the sentence. This is also called "dummy it".

Base sentence:
That our active principles should ... noble | comes (about) | in some way.
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